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Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.
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The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That's the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn't much matter whether you get where you're going or not. You'll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy.... Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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I always write with my.357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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'There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.'
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact
I work only under duress.
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty — you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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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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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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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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Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.
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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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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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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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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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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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