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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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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Thats the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesnt matter much whether you get where youre going or not. Youll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. – Edward Abbey

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Walking
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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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Old friends are best. – John Selden

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The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. – Ambrose Bierce

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Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a childs eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. – George Orwell

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The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. – Henry David Thoreau

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Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa. – Marcus Garvey

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