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Only the half-mad are wholly alive.

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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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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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Life: another day, another dolor.
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There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.
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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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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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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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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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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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