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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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The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.
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We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement.
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.
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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.
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How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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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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I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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A pretentious fad-chaser…the pom-pom girl of American letters.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
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Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.
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We must save the city. It is essence and substance of us all-we cannot lose it without diminishing our stature as a nation, without a fatal wound.
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We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!
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For the rest of the afternoon, keeping to the shady side, we drift down the splendid river, deeper and deeper and deeper into the fantastic.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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Science is the whore of industry and the handmaiden of war.
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Any good poet, in our age at least, must begin with the scientific view of the world; and any scientist worth listening to must be something of a poet, must possess the ability to communicate to the rest of us his sense of love and wonder at what his work discovers.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Edward Abbey
Born:
January 29, 1927
Died:
March 14, 1989
(aged 62)
Bio:
Edward Paul Abbey was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views.
Known for:
Desert Solitaire (1968)
The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)
The Fool's Progress (1988)
The Brave Cowboy (1956)
Hayduke Lives
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