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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.

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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.
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Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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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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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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