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“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
“I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution, and I vowed that I would never go inside a church again.
[Eugene V. Debs, describing his teenage reaction to a hellfire lecture by a priest]”
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[Eugene V. Debs, describing his teenage reaction to a hellfire lecture by a priest]”
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“If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.”
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“I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.”
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“The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
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