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

Upton Sinclair

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
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
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
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
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?
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Blame Evil Honesty Media Myself
Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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Believe Goodness
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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Accomplishment Corruption Democracy Necessary Oneself Politics
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
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
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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Himself Man Strange
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
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
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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Death Injustice Nation Politics
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
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
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

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