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Upton Sinclair

But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.
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Battle Devil Force Give Up Himself Human Nature Strength
In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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Power Vision
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure – such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
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Drama Fate Grief Human Magic Past Poet Remember Sad Spirit Strange Suffering Tragedy Word Writing
If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.
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Greatness Money Sun
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
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Desire Fate Kind Life Men Philosophy Prison
We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.
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Business Country Media Practice Privilege
You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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Career Job Understand Work Yourself
I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.
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Body Existence Goodness Gratitude Health Human Joy Myself Perfection Potential
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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Death Injustice Nation Politics
An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.
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Book History Oneself Word
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
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Mental Person Sick Society Voice
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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Control Money Slave
The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.
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Born Fear Growth Religion Study
Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
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Myself Observe Wonder
The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.
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Crime Ignorance Mindset Stupidity
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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Difficult Himself Men People Understand Wisdom

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