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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.
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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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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.
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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
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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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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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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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