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The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

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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 New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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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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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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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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