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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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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Except
Men
Like
Tenors
Howling
Sopranos
Opera
Sing

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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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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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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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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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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
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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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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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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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Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.
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