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• Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• The stylus is more potent than the claymore.
• Walking makes the world much bigger and therefore more interesting. -- Edward Abbey
• Liberalism: Unbridled emotion fueled by unbridled greed.
• Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it.
  And to kill for it. -- Edward Abbey...
• The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
  -- Edward Abbey...