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• Poetry--even bad poetry--may be our final hope. -- Edward Abbey
• Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry, and other bad habits.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtue
  without courage, the other virtues are useless. -- Edward Abbey...
• Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays.
  Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan?...
• Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Perfection is a minor virtue. -- Edward Abbey