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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

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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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Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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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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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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Simplicity is always a virtue.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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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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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
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