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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
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Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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My chief objection is that 99% of sermons and Sunday School teachings are so agonizingly dull.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
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Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities.
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
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