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Upton Sinclair

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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Accomplishment Corruption Democracy Necessary Oneself Politics
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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Institution Media Poor Rich
Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
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Existence Feeling Health Human Myself Perfection
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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Himself Man Strange
Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
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Myself Observe Wonder
You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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Career Job Understand Work Yourself
Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?
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Blame Evil Honesty Media Myself
But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.
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Country Faith Liberty Myself Ourselves Religious Suffering
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
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Desire Fate Kind Life Men Philosophy Prison
In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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Power Vision
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
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History Religion Science
The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.
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Crime Ignorance Mindset Stupidity
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
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Evidence Fools Reality
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure – such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
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Drama Fate Grief Human Magic Past Poet Remember Sad Spirit Strange Suffering Tragedy Word Writing
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
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Mental Person Sick Society Voice
The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.
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Depression Greatness Result Team Work

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