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Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.
— Edward Abbey Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
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There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
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