Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
SINCLAIR LEWISWhen 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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A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth.
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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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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
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We’re tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers… coax us, ‘Be calm! Be patient! Wait!
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An it isn’t so much that the church is in bondage to Big Business and doctrines as laid down by millionaires – though a lot of churches are that, too.
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
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It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
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The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country.
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In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.
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I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
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If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows.
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Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
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People read fiction for emotion-not information
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Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.
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