Edward Abbey Quotes
'The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for - for what? Someday we'll know.'
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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I love my sleep.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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If you can look at one of these waves and you don't believe that there's something greater than we are, then you've got some serious analyzing to do and you should go sit under a tree for a very long time.
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Jejunis nil scribo: meum post pocula si quislegerit, hic sapiet.Sed magis hic sapiet, si dormiet: et putet istasomnia missa sibi.
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Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
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I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
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Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.
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'The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for - for what? Someday we'll know.'
