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Name:
Edward Abbey
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59
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American
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Science
(3)
Society
(3)
Government
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Nature
(3)
anger
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Power
(2)
Wilderness
(2)
Greed
(2)
Democracy
(2)
best
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Home
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Men
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Letters
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Ability
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Wealth
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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Power
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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best
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There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
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Science
127
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A crowded society is a restrictive society an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian repressive and murderous society.
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Society
113
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Why wilderness? Because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.
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Wilderness
110
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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
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Power
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Hard times are acoming and people without useful practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.
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Suffering
104
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Reality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybodys typewriter even Tolstoys even yours even mine.
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Reality
99
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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Home
97
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Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic trivial nervewracking bombardment of cliches threats fads fashions gibberish and advertising.
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Internet
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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Government
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How become a writer Naturally.
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Writers
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
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Defenders
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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Maturity
83
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WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT:Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways
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Wealth
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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization based on five thousand years of experience that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings priests politicians generals and county commissioners.
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Anarchism
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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Men
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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anger
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What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
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Giant
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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Nature
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Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, the perennial hapless self-amused dilettante, half-worried by the slippage of time but determined to enjoy failure anyway.
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Ability
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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
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Government
72
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But of the seven deadly sins wrath is the healthiest next only to lust.
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Lust
72
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To the question Wilderness who needs it Doc would say Because we like the taste of freedom comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But thought Hayduke what about the smell of fear Dad
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Danger
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Soul
69
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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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Tyranny
67
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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Science
66
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I wish to bean inspector of volcanoes.I want to study cloud formationsand memorize the windand learn by heart the habits ofthe ponderosa pine.
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Nature
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We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there.... We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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Wilderness
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In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.
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Honesty
60
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
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Growth
58
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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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Time
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Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
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Mind
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Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
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Imagination
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As a confirmed melancholic I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However like most melancholics I suffer also from sloth.
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Depression
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Poor Hayduke won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.
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Good
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Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.
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Democracy
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The gross evil of our time defies all labels.
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Society
50
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Ah yes the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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Focus
49
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Readers not critics are the people who determine a books eventual fate.
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Readers
49
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The more we learn of outer space and inner space of quasars and quarks of Big Bangs and Little Blips the more remote abstract and intellectually inconsequential it all becomes.
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Science
48
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An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.
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Economics
47
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I hate and fear violence myself have always avoided barroom brawls and tho Im a bit of a gunnut and a member of the NRA I never shoot at anything but beer cans and mule deer. In season. And seldom hit either except by accident.
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Violence
47
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As to the charge that I am a cranky old man I plead guilty.
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Age
47
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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Anger
46
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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred great books and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
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Sacrifice
46
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Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
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Society
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What we need now are heroes and heroines about a million of them one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Action
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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
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Government
43
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism.
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Superstition
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