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Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.

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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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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.
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Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.
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No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
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