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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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Upton Sinclair
Age: 90 †
Born: 1878
Born: September 20
Died: 1968
Died: November 25
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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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.
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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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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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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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It is the music which makes it what it is it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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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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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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