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Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers.

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Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.
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Better Criticize Custom Love Much Think Yourself
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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Anything Buy Customer One People
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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Better Country Intellectual Know Other
if men and women would be human beings instead of just business men, or plumbers, or army officers, or commuters, or educators, or authors, or clubwomen, or traveling salesmen, or Socialists, or Republicans, or Salvation Army leaders, or wearers of cloths.
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Army Being Business Commuter Human Leader Men Officer Plumber Rotary Salesmen Salvation Travel Wearers
Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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Curiosity Devil Dress God Grecian Modern Neither Retain Vestment Wear
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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Advertise Cheapest Economic Factor Good Particular Sell Valuable Worthless
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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Become Compulsion Every Obedient Polite Safe Sterile Upon Writer
Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.
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Boredom Dull Good Know Live Lord Many People Philosopher Right Solution Unnecessarily
I’ve heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I’ve never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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Curing Give Heard Malaria Patient Syphill
What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much – and like so well?
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Condemn Like Much Sin Unheard Well
Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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Always Country Dreadful So Travel Why
Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.
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Astonishingly Complicated Easy Great Hard Life Make No One Reform
But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.
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Barbarism Capable Forever Men Ritual Science Shut Silence
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
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Another Drink Man Take
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
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Come Country Fascism Flag Hundred Name Percent Wrap
His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
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Afford Call Country House More Name Nimble Pay People Person Sell

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