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No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

Edward Abbey

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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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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
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The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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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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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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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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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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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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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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