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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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Edward Paul Abbey
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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
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Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.
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King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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The sense of justice springs from self-respect both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.
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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
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A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
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Guns don't kill people people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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