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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
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Duty
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Home
Men
Showdown
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Rifles
Defend

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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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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.
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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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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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