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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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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
Dangerous
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Cubs
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Dollar
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Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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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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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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