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There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

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December 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.

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December 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

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December 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

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December 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism.

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December 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

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December 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last

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December 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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The best cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy.

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December 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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I look forward to the day when all river runners carry, as part of their standard equipment, a surface-to-air missile launcher armed with heat-seeking missiles.

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December 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

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December 16, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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The Four Corners was "the place where the tangible and the mythical became the same."

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December 16, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: form of rape by the State.

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December 16, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

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December 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms.

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December 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

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December 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

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December 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a Juniper tree or the wings of a vulture-that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.

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December 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

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December 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

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December 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Life is hard? True--but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.

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December 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.

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December 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.

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December 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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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.

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December 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

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December 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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You cannot see wilderness from a road. What you see from a road is something different- a scene, a panorama, a picture; but you do not feel anything.

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December 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM