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All governments require enemy governments.

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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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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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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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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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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.
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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
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A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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