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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
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It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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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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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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