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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'

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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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Novelist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
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Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.
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