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- What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot…
- I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if…
- Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.
- Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
- Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
- A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.
- Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.
- Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is…
- Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to…
- And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
- All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary…
- Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean,…
- There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of…
- Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water…
- A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take…
- We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have…
- 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…
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