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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.

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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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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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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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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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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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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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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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