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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero



Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime



My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel



One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principals of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.



Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.



Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.



Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exhaults and glorifies, the rebel



A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.



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.



Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together



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 waste on speed.



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.



Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.



"But love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need - if only we had eyes to see." "I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving." "The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders." "Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."



The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and empire. From a race of hunters, artists, warriors, and tamers of horses, we degraded ourselves to what we are now: clerks, functionaries, laborers, entertainers, processors of information








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