It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.
SINCLAIR LEWIS
SINCLAIR LEWIS
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Sinclair Lewis125 quotes“It’s one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.”
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics!
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Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.
Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-
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Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis Think of how many are arrested for selling fake stock, for seducing 14-year-old girls in orphanages under their care, for arson, for murder.
Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.
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Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados We flew to heaven, and we touched the sun.
Jennifer JulietteJennifer Juliette You told me everything would be okay. I wish you had said – you’ll hurt but I’ll hold you.
Ullie KayeUllie Kaye Be brave, be bold, beware that you must believe before becoming.
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A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley I’m just bringing them to Kassel to see the art show, and pay their room and board.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
Adam SavageAdam Savage When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.
Adam SavageAdam Savage I find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.
Adam SavageAdam Savage I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste.
Adam SavageAdam Savage Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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