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Beware of the man who has no enemies.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Beware
Enemies
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Men

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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
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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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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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