Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
SINCLAIR LEWISSince dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it,
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Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one’s business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse.
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God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.”
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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .
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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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So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.
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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business … then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.
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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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It is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs.
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Most of us who work — or want to work — will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy.
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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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Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?
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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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Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
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