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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

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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
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Reincarnation
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Nutcracker
Suite

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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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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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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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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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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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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead symmetrical but stiff.
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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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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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