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Quote by Edward Abbey
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculo

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. – Edward Abbey

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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government, I says, but dont insult me poor bleedin country. – Edward Abbey

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Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. – Edward Abbey

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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.) – Edward Abbey

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Superstition
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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. – William Hazlitt

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The superstition in which we grew up,
Though we may recognize it, does not lose
Its power over us–Not all are free
Who make mock of their chains. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. – Proverb

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