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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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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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Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
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You long for success? Start at the bottom dig down.
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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