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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.

Edward Abbey

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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
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