"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals."
-Edward Abbey
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"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.“
-Edward Abbey
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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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"That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding."
-Edward Abbey
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"There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
-Edward Abbey
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"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
-Edward Abbey
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"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
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"One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up."
-Jeff Goodell
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"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
-Charles Babbage
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"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently."
-Jeff Goodell
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"A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
-Charles Babbage
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
-Jeff Goodell
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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