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Edward Abbey Quotes: Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
         

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.


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I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.



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Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.



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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.



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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

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