"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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"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.“
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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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