"I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet."
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"There are no vacant lots in nature."
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"There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks."
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"Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot."
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"In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food."
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"A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization."
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"To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death."
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"When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management."
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"Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age."
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"You can't belay a man who's falling in love."
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"It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight."
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"A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously."
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"Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?"
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"The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war."
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"Women who love only women may have a good point."
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"Might does not make right but it sure makes what is."
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"When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful."
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"By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century."
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"Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so."
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"A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist."
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