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• Might does not make right but it sure makes what is. -- Edward Abbey
• Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years.
  The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years. -- Edward Abbey...
• Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Women who love only women may have a good point. -- Edward Abbey
• My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
  -- Edward Abbey...