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In this respect the differences between the USA and the USSR are those of evangelical dinosaurs competing for domination on one small planet: the first deifies Jesus Christ, the other Karl Marx. Neither has much practical interest in what those two sincere and hard-working fellows actually preached.
— Edward Abbey Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Tags: world-politics, religion, government

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There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
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