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.
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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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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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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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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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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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.
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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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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.
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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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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.
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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. . . .
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I don’t know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- ‘social justice.’ For that is what I have believed in and fought for.
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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.
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But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.
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