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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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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 critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
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In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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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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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
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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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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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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
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It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
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