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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every cor

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so. – Edward Abbey

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What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June? – Edward Abbey

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But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider… That thought was our power. – Joshua Chamberlain

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Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why were here: Were here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature. – Rainn Wilson

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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. – James Madison

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Order is power. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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