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"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles." »George Jean Nathan
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"The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted." »Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
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"This Rock has become an object of veneration in the United States. I have seen bits of it carefully preserved in several towns in the Union. Does this sufficiently show that all human power and greatness is in the soul of man? Here is a stone which the feet of a few outcasts pressed for an instant; and the stone becomes famous; it is treasured by a great nation; its very dust is shared as a relic." »Alexis DeTocqueville
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