Quote by Edward Abbey
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts t

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. – Edward Abbey

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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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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men. – Edward Abbey

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When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. – John Lubbock

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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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The best things in life are silly. – Scott Adams

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The best way to hold a man is in your arms. – Mae West

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What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. – Mario Puzo

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Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software. – Arthur C. Clarke

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Only after the last tree has been cut down,
only after the last river has ben poisoned,
only after the last fish has been caught,
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