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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Upton Sinclair

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.
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Art Change Creativity Happiness Optimistic Practice Tragedy True Work
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
The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
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Hope Joy Life Limitation Old Seek
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
Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
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Existence Feeling Health Human Myself Perfection
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
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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History Religion Science
In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
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Competition Money Necessary Power Society Waste
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.
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Change Music Place Room Sky Wonderful
In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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Power Vision
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
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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Institution Media Poor Rich
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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Faith God Goodness Myself Process Trust Worth
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
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.
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Business Discover Money Pieces
They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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Exception Tools Use Work

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