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In the training of any freedom fighters there must be a merger of fearlessness and intelligent caution. A dead man has no use for confidence or courage.

— William Powell The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)

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Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?

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Treat any and all drugs with respect, for most of the time they are stronger than you are.

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Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.

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This chapter is going to kill and maim more people than all the rest put together, because people just refuse to take things seriously.

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This is a brutal book – sensual, rude, coarse, and cruel. However, it is timely and well-written, even witty.

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