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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.

Upton Sinclair

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
They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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Exception Tools Use Work
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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Himself Man Strange
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
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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Art Escape World
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
The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.
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Depression Greatness Result Team 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
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
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
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
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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Believe Care Fight Heart Justice Myself Word
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
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
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

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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