Edward Abbey Quotes About Giving
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If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.
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Preacher to me: 'A dollar for the Lord, brother?' Me to preacher: 'That's all right, I'm headed his way. I'll give it to him when I see him.'
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My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.'
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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