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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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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
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It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
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Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.
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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly it's the highway that is ugly.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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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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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues.
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Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
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To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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