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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Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime. – Edward Abbey

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Beer
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Society is like a stew. If you dont stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. – Edward Abbey

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Society
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I dont see how poetry can ever be easy… Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it. – Edward Abbey

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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. – Doris Lessing

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

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Superstition

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. – Marlene Dietrich

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Superstition

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