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.
UPTON SINCLAIRThey use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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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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You don’t have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn’t like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I’ve been trying to change it ever since.
UPTON SINCLAIRYou don’t have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn’t like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I’ve been trying to change it ever since.
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We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.
UPTON SINCLAIRWe 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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Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?
UPTON SINCLAIRCan you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?
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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.
UPTON SINCLAIRI 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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The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.
UPTON SINCLAIRThe remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.
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I just put on what the lady says. I’ve been married three times, so I’ve had lots of supervision.
UPTON SINCLAIRI just put on what the lady says. I’ve been married three times, so I’ve had lots of supervision.
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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
UPTON SINCLAIRThey use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
UPTON SINCLAIRIt is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
UPTON SINCLAIRYou can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
UPTON SINCLAIRIt is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
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Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
UPTON SINCLAIRTurn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
UPTON SINCLAIRFascism is capitalism plus murder.
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Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
UPTON SINCLAIRWall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
UPTON SINCLAIROne of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
UPTON SINCLAIRI aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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