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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
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Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.
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A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom because we like the smell of danger.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
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