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• What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Australia: the continent that thinks it's a state. Texa
  he state that thinks it's a continent. Alaska: Who cares! The mosquitoes are as big as states....
• We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Our magazines and roach traps... Gone! All gone!
  -- Homer remains in a state of shock after the house fire, "Homer the Heretic...
• The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper from a citizen of the state of Impecunia.
  "Two years ago our neighboring state, Lucria, began a state lottery to supplement tax revenues for education and public health....
• is to inspire fear and awe--fear and awe of the State. -- Edward Abbey
• A lanky Texan was mad because Texas had just become the second largest state in the Union, so he made up his mind to move to Alaska.
  He drove for three days and three nights to get there and finally he came to what looked like the state line....