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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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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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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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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.
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