"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals."
-Edward Abbey
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"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
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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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"There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
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"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
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"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
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