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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

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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
Love
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Intelligence
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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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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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.
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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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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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