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" A drink a day keeps the shrink away. "
Shrink
Away
Day
" Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. "
Enough
Observation
Men
" A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. "
Country
Always
Government
" Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. "
Belief
Failure
Reflects
" Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. "
Youth
Civilization
Him
" Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. "
Climbing
Canyon
Grand Canyon
" For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! "
Nature
Black
Flowers
" Grown men do not need leaders. "
Grown Men
Grown
Leaders
" Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. "
Sake
Cell
Cancer
" If the end does not justify the means - what can? "
End
Means
Justify
" Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. "
Cares
Nothing
Anger
" May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. "
Nature
Mountains
Clouds
" One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. "
Stupidity
Man
Alone
" Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. "
Culture
First
Second
" Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. "
New
Hell
Evil
" Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. "
Power
Always
Best
" Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. "
Country
Me
Poor
" 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. "
Up
Funny
Like
" Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. "
Taxation
Sheep
How
" That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. "
Today
Understanding
Science
" The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. "
Only
Idea
Defense
" The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. "
Forth
Go
Savages
" There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. "
Experience
Thought
Science
" The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. "
War
Tragedy
Fighting
" What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. "
Tree
Tiny
Shade
" When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. "
His
Best
Man
" Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. "
Luxury
Nature
Spirit
" You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. "
Flooding
Light
Darkness
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