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Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, the perennial hapless self-amused dilettante, half-worried by the slippage of time but determined to enjoy failure anyway. – 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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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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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. – Francis Bacon

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I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. Speaking Of Winston Churchill – Arthur Balfour

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Others have done it before me. I can, too. – Corporal John Faunce

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Ability without honor is useless. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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This gives force to the strong — that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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