The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it … - Upton Sinclair

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My head is filled with so much crap, or facts that I find important, but that some others don't.

Upton Sinclair

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.

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Through fasting. . . I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.

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Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.

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Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.

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My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

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I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'.

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