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• No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
• Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. -- Lazarus Long
• The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Perfection is a minor virtue. -- Edward Abbey
• Simplicity is always a virtue. -- Edward Abbey
• Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Righ
  An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny....
• Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies.
  This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board...
• Freedom begins between the ears. -- Edward Abbey