"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

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"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

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"I hate and fear violence myself, have always avoided barroom brawls, and tho' I'm a bit of a gun-nut, and a member of the NRA, I never shoot at anything but beer cans and mule deer. (In season.) And seldom hit either, except by accident."

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"You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light."

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"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."

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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."

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"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."

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"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."

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"Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing."

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"They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again. They would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human."

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"There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right."

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"I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way."

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