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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.
Edward Abbey
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Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being — much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.

garrison keillor

— As quoted in The Times Book of Quotations (2000), p. 384

Tags: we, trust, paper, Wealth, here, premises, open, cupboard, see

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Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

jacques-yves cousteau

— French conservationist, naval officer, author and filmmaker

Tags: Garbage, Global, become, depends, life, fluids, essential, two, air

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Scientology , how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ?

frank zappa

— Concert address to audience at the Rockpile, Toronto (May 1969)

Tags: Scientology, You, hold, tin, then, guy, asks, bunch, questions

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To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.

starhawk

— Ch. 3 : The Ethics of Magic, p. 41

Tags: live, integrity, unjust, society, we, work, justice, walk, landscape

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When freedom rises from the killing floor,No lock of iron or rivet can restrain the door.And no kind of army can hope to win a warLike trying to stop the rain or still the lion`s roar,Like trying to stop the whirlwind scattering seeds and sporesLike trying to stop the tin cans rapping out jailhouse semaphore.

joe strummer

— Joe Strummer and Bono, "46664", written for Nelson Mandela's HIV/AIDS festival in 2003

Tags: When, freedom, rises, killing, lock, iron, can, restrain, doorAnd

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Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and coloured and put into cans.

h. l. mencken

— Notes on Democracy (1926)

Tags: Public, opinion, raw, state, gushes, immemorial, form, fear, piped

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It's exploding bags, aerosol cans Southbound buses, Peter Pan They left it up to us again I thought you knew the drill It's kill or be killed.

conor oberst

— Clairaudients(Kill or Be Killed)

Tags: exploding, bags, buses, Pan, left, us, again, thought, you

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