"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."
-Henry Adams
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"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."
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"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops."
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"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."
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"Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world."
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"I have a bit of a rebellious nature."
-John Cusack
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"I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop."
-Willie Stargell
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"There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder."
-Alfred Austin
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"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
-Charles Eastman
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