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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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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.
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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
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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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The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
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