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Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.
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Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
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Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the
basic tyrant of the modern age.
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.
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Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.
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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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Most of my wandering in the desert I've done alone. Not so much from choice as from necessity—I generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go.
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
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The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees.
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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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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
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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