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Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.

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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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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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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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I am — really am — an extremist, one who lives and loves by choice far out on the very verge of things, on the edge of the abyss, where this world falls off into the depths of another. That's the way I like it.

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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.

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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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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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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.

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I would expand the Biblical aphorism... in this fashion: the root of all evil is the love of power. And power attracts the worst and corrupts the best among men.

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For I am not a naturalist.... If a label is required say that I am one who loves unfenced country. The open range. Call me a ranger... The only higher honor I've ever heard of is to be called a man.

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The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.

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All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

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Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

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Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.

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It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.

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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

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What do we know? What do we really know? He licks his dried cracked lips. We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foreknowledge of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement. I challenge that statement. With what? I don't know.

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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of
love.

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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

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Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

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How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.

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All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love — and most of all, an audience!

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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

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Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.

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