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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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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.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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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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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an equalizer.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.
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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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