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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.

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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
Everything
Brawn
Vastly
Different
Brains
Men
Superior
Superiors
Brain
Race
Women

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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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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
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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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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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