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Be wary of technology it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, But what shall I do? my answer is, If you really wish to do anything, resign your office. When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.
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There are various, nay, incredible faiths why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
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The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.
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