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As a confirmed melancholic, I ...

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

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Anarchism is democracy taken s...

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

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Has joy any survival value in ...

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

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Desert springtime, with flower...

Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitementЂ'mating season.

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In the afternoon I watch the c...

In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)

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Lightning streaks like gunfire...

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

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I wish to be
an inspector...

I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the wind
and learn by heart the habits of
the ponderosa pine.

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I don't see how poetry can eve...

I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

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WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT:<...

WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT:
Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways

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Money confers the power to com...

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

So I write mainly for the fun ...

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

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Wilderness is not a luxury but...

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

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When a man's best friend is hi...

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

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What is the purpose of the gia...

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

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There is science, logic, reaso...

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

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The tragedy of modern war is t...

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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The missionaries go forth to C...

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

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The idea of wilderness needs n...

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

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That which today calls itself ...

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

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Taxation: how the sheep are sh...

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....