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World Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as…
- Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine…
- Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
- The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.
- Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the…
- If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
- The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural…
- The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.
- The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.
- This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
- Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru…
- The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.
- For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
- We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.
- We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight…
- Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and…
- In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.
- In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
- Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get…
- I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am…
- The world is what it is, no less and no more, and therein lies its entire and sufficient meaning.
- Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.
- The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!
- There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
- I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach