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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

Edward Abbey

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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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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert.
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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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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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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking namely, life.
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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 feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
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Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
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War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
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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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