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I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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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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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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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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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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