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• The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wive
  mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name....
• There has never been an "original" sin: each is quite banal. -- Edward Abbey
• One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience.
  But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals. -- Edward Abbey...
• We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
  That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do....
• The ideal robot, after all, is simply a properly processed human being. -- Edward Abbey
• There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love. -- Edward Abbey
• Your will to survive, your love of life, your passion to know .
  .. Everything that is truest and best in all species of beings has been revealed to you....
• It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature.
  Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel at home in our skin....
• What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote. -- Edward Abbey