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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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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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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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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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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
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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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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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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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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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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
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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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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.
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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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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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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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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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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.
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