"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."

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Edward Abbey

#Travel Quotes #Fun Quotes #Crazy Quotes

“Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.”
“Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.”

Source : "How Do You Reinvent Yourself After a Near-Death Experience?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 19, 2014.
“I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.”
“The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.”

Source : Program notes to "Avak The Healer", 1946.
“Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.”

Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903). “New Letters and Memorials”
“Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.”

Source : Joseph Glanvill, Anthony Horneck, Henry More (1966). “Saducismus Triumphatus: Or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions [!] (1689)”
“When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.”
“In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.”

Source : "Let us advance under the banner of Marxism-Leninism and the Juche Idea". Speech on the occasion of the 165th birthday of Karl Marx and the Centenary of his death, May 03, 1983.

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