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| 59f5f92 | The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state. ...The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard. | free liberal magazine men-of-straw preachers prison rotten school self-deception state straw-men | Henry David Thoreau | |
| ece1376 | Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears | liars manipulation men-and-women narcissism narcissists politicians politics preachers sociopathology sociopaths women | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | |
| e6bbb58 | Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil. | devil preachers woman | Orhan Pamuk | |
| 652d153 | "That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness." -- | clergy nihilism preachers righteousness | Flannery O'Connor |