A Quote by Gao Xingjian
Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.
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There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth.
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