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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 Sinclair

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
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
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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Control Money Slave
I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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Accident Heart Hit Mistake Myself People
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
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
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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Institution Media Poor Rich
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
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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Himself Man Strange
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
Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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Believe Goodness
But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.
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Battle Devil Force Give Up Himself Human Nature Strength
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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Art Escape World
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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Death Injustice Nation Politics
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
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

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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