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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 magazine men-of-straw straw-men rotten preachers liberal self-deception prison state school | Henry David Thoreau | |
| ece1376 | Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears | women politics liars preachers sociopathology sociopaths narcissists manipulation narcissism politicians men-and-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. | woman preachers devil | 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." -- | righteousness clergy preachers nihilism | Flannery O'Connor |