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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

Upton Sinclair

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
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
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
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
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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Accomplishment Corruption Democracy Necessary Oneself Politics
They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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Exception Tools Use Work
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
Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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Believe Goodness
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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Death Injustice Nation Politics
It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
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Evidence Fools Reality
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
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
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
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
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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