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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

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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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Liberal
Knees
Conservative
Groveling
Rich
Counterpart
Powerful
Pads
Always
Counterparts
Knee
Jerk

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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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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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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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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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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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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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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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