Modern Bibles

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“Bureacracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

“As for the sacred Scriptures, or Bibles of mankind, who in this town can tell me even their titles? Most men do not know that any nation but the Hebrews have had a scripture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)