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“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.” — Walt Whitman

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“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.” — Walt Whitman

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“I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.” — Walt Whitman

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