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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Nation
Dangerous
Nations
Best
Men
Love
Swine
People
Patriot
Despise

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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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Life: another day, another dolor.
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The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
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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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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
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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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When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
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Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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