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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

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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
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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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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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature they distort it.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.
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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
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