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In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.

Edward Abbey

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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
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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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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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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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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