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Society is like a stew. If you dont stir it up every once in a whi

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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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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Environment
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Edward Abbey
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I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the wind
and learn by heart the habits of
the ponderosa pine. – Edward Abbey

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Nature
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Edward Abbey
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WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT:
Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways – Edward Abbey

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Wealth
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Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, “On the Pitying,” Thus Spake Zarathustra

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For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. – Joe Biden

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We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them. – Samantha Morton

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth. – Vladimir Lenin

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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. – Doris Lessing

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By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it. – Joseph Collins

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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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