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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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Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.
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You,” Said Dr. Yavitch, “are a middle-road liberal, and you haven’t the slightest idea what you want.
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The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires-to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. … He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. -chapter 8
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We’d get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.
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All Cookies Ever May Sick Sicker Too
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.
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What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Condemn Like Much Sin Unheard Well
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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Indians, of course, have no “theology,” and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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Industry Mmiddlevest North Season Writer
Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies.
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I must say I’m not very fond of oratory that’s so full of energy it hasn’t any room for facts.
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Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
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City Power Reclaim Vast Wander
We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.’ For ten thousand years they’ve said that. We want our Utopia now — and we’re going to try our hands at it.
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Already Go Hand Made Plan Thousand Utpoi Want Wiser Year
So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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Much Nothing Revolution Wait
Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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And that the pastor’s sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which ‘did a fellow good– kept him in touch with Higher Things.
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