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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.
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The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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