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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in hear

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James Baldwin

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The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed. – James Baldwin

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The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. – Henry David Thoreau

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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity. – Thomas Kempis

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