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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.
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Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.
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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
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The sense of justice springs from self-respect both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.
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Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
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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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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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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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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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