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We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.
Mark Twain
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I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.
Mark Twain
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Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
Leo Tolstoy
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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.
Mark Twain
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If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience.
Noam Chomsky
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The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true. Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am.
Gore Vidal
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Vices are not crimes.
Lysander Spooner
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When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel that he probably knows what he is talking about. I just wish he hadn't told me.
James Fenton
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We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.
George Orwell
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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.
Upton Sinclair
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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.
Upton Sinclair
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Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
Upton Sinclair
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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.
Upton Sinclair
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
Upton Sinclair
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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
Upton Sinclair
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It was cold and clammy in the stone cell they called it the cooler, and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.
Upton Sinclair
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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
Upton Sinclair
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
Upton Sinclair
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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.
Upton Sinclair
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You have to fight for the soul of your people, you have to fight for the souls of millions of people on both sides, to overcome the legacy of this struggle [between Palestine and Israel] and create a readiness for peace.
Uri Avnery
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Violence [in Palestina] is a symptom the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers. Therefore, the first responsibility is to put an end to the occupation.
Uri Avnery
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I believe that Israel must concede to the Palestinian right of return in principle. Israel must, first of all, assume its responsibility for what happened in 1948, as far as we are to blame - and we are to blame for a great part of it, if not for all - and we must recognize in principle the right of refugees to return.
Uri Avnery
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It is manifestly idiotic to believe that Israel, with five million Jewish citizens and one million Arab citizens, will concede to the return of four million refugees. It will not happen. We can wish it, we can think it's just, that it's moral - it will not happen. No country commits suicide.
Uri Avnery
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