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Alexis de Tocqueville

"Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States."

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"Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States."

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"Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history."

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"Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile."

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"There is more evil than good when we preach the miracle centered gospel instead if the kingdom gospel."

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"Miracles focused gospel teaches us to be selfish and egocentric."

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"Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism."

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"Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it."

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"The Church of Rome, formerly the most holy of all Churches, has become the most lawless den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the very kingdom of sin, death, and hell; so that not even antichrist, if he were to come, could devise any addition to its wickedness."

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Amber Hurdle

"The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens " tax livestock " labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters."

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