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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

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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
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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