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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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air. – Edward Abbey

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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there aint nothin can beat teamwork. – Edward Abbey

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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Henry Huxley

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Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadnt the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us. – Henry Miller

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

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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. – Freda Adler

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