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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

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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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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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Only the half-mad are wholly alive.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last
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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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