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• The mad scientist was once only a creature of gothic romance
  ow he is everywhere, busy torturing atoms and animals in his laboratory. -- Edward Abbey...
• To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death. -- Edward Abbey
• Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind. -- Edward Abbey
• This world may be only illusion--but it's the only illusion we've got. -- Edward Abbey
• True, it's only a little dam. But, damn it, it's only a little river. -- Edward Abbey
• It's alive! Oh, that fellow at Radio Shack said I was mad.
  Well, who's mad now!...
• Art, science, philosophy, religion--each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• As Mark Twain said, "I love Wagner--if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Government should be weak, amateurish, and ridiculous.
  At present, it fufills only a third of the role. -- Edward Abbey...