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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.
Upton Sinclair
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Upton Sinclair
Age: 90 †
Born: 1878
Born: September 20
Died: 1968
Died: November 25
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Upton Beall Sinclair
Clarke Fitch
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Upton Sinclair Jr.
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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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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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Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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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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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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Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
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