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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

Edward Abbey

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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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Edward Paul Abbey
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Capitalism

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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
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