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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.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Wealth
Grace
Uncalled
Heaven
Manna
Money
Scheming
Come
Unearned
Like
Sweating
Gift
Worth

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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.
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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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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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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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