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Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

Upton Sinclair

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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Art Escape World
I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.
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Faith God Goodness Myself Process Trust Worth
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
If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.
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Greatness Money Sun
In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
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Competition Money Necessary Power Society Waste
But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.
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Battle Devil Force Give Up Himself Human Nature Strength
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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Accomplishment Corruption Democracy Necessary Oneself Politics
They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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Exception Tools Use Work
The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art’s sake than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore – and then there will be time enough for art.
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Art Enough Himself Purpose Thinking Time Writing
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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Himself Man Strange
In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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Power Vision
The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
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Hope Joy Life Limitation Old Seek
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 first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.
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Born Fear Growth Religion Study
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
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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