"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."
-Edward Abbey
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"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
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"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals."
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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."
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"There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
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"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."
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"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
-Ambrose Bierce
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