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• The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• A formal education can sometimes be broadening but more often merely flattens. -- Edward Abbey
• The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents. -- Edward Abbey
• Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Stop too long and they cover you with rocks. -- Edward Abbey
• The best cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. -- Edward Abbey
• The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares. -- Edward Abbey
• Walking makes the world much bigger and therefore more interesting. -- Edward Abbey
• Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it.
  And to kill for it. -- Edward Abbey...