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| 81f42f3 | A world conqueror had appeared in modern times. Alexander, Caesar, Attila, Genghis Khan, Napoleon--another such as these, appearing in the age of electricity, of rotary presses and radio, when nine men out of ten would have said it was impossible. A world conqueror has to be a man of few ideas, and those fixed; a peculiar combination of exactly the right qualities, both good and bad--iron determination, irresistible energy, and no scruples .. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| b43d82d | He was, as the novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair wrote, "willing by deliberate and shameful lies, made out of whole cloth, to stir nations to enmity and drive them to murderous war." | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| 329df21 | Yes: It was perhaps Upton Sinclair that wrote at some place that just make a man a believer in immortality and then rob him of all his riches, and possessions. | Bhagat Singh | ||
| 53333ab | Of late years, however, since his children were growing up, he had begun to value respectability, and had had himself made a magistrate; a position for which he was admirably fitted, because of his strong conservatism and his contempt for "foreigners." | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 7e46b83 | They say that the best dog will turn cross if he be kept chained all the time, and it was the same with the man; he had not a thing to do all day but lie and curse his fate, and the time came when he wanted to curse everything. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 11e157f | Truly it seemed that a great people had gone mad; but it is a fact well known to alienists that you cannot convince a madman of his own condition, and only make him madder by trying. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 8df11bb | Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the saying all the screaming passion which one human voice can carry--that was Adolf Hitler's technique. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| cb24b6e | It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it. --UPTON SINCLAIR | Anand Giridharadas | ||
| 1674bf5 | In 1934, after Upton Sinclair was defeated in his campaign to become the next governor of California, he labeled the advertising concern that defeated him a "lie factory." Marston took much the same view. One of Wonder Woman's most sinister adversaries, the Duke of Deception, runs an advertising firm called the Lie Factory." | Jill Lepore | ||
| e4af2b3 | As Upton Sinclair famously observed: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"36" | Naomi Klein | ||
| b2f8efc | Hey, amazon.ca, that's the online bookstore or whatever, right? | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 14b8dfe | Ramona V. Flowers: What kind of tea do you want? Scott Pilgrim: There's more than one kind of tea?...What do you have? | Bryan Lee O'Malley | ||
| 1e65ce9 | You're not a monster. You're a mirror. | seconds | Bryan Lee O'Malley | |
| 242e80f | He will be sure to give us rest soon. | Helen L. Taylor | ||
| 7edc7a1 | All those statistics - the ones about decline - point toward massive theological discontent. People still believe in God. They just do not believe in the God proclaimed and worshipped by conventional religious organizations. Some of the discontented - and there are many of them - do not know what to call themselves. So they check the "unaffiliated" box on religion surveys. They have become secular humanists, agnostics, posttheists, and athe.. | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| e7f0b04 | Where do you live?' is ultimately a sacred question. | focus life | Diana Butler Bass | |
| 08f675c | T]his impulse toward spiritual intimacy is found not only in the Abrahamic faiths, but in Buddhism, Hinduism, and native religions. Far too many people who understand God in these ways probably do not know how rich the tradition is that speaks of God with us, God in the stars and sunrise, God as the face of their neighbor, God in the act of justice, or God as the wonder of love. The language of divine nearness is the very heart of vibrant f.. | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| 31c4238 | What we need is here. --Wendell Berry | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| 37e52ff | Hospitality is the practice that keeps the church from becoming a club, a members-only society. | Diana Butler Bass | ||
| 1ca14fd | Espero que no pase, pero no deberiamos empezar este viaje pensando en las cosas malas que pueden suceder. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 9523b06 | Spiritual awakening is not ultimately the work of invisible cultural forces. Instead, it is the work of learning to see differently, of prayer, and of conversion. It is something people do. | religion spirituality | Diana Butler Bass | |
| 6486bcc | You are my greatest virtue and my deepest vice." He leaned forward and pressed their lips together." | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| af63ca2 | I tell you Charlie, I was there waiting in that field. waiting for Ede and Tom to find me. You don't think two people come together for nothing, do you? They were together because I was waiting to be found..." Then she looked straight into my face and said to me: "You know it, too, Charlie. All that time you waited for me to find you. What if I hadn't? What if I'd said: I won't?" She turned, and clinging to my arm, she surveyed the fields.. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 1f38449 | Frederick? Had she really spoken? Certainly she'd tried, but her voice had failed to materialize and all she heard was the sound of her nightgown ripping as Frederick pulled it over her head and threw it aside. He was kneeling now between her ankles, pushing at her, forcing her knees apart and then her arms until she was entirely splayed on the bed beneath him. Nothing was said. Not a word. Ede felt his hand between her legs, forcing the.. | Timothy Findley | ||
| b35fbfb | With Tom, there had never been a door to close, only the grass to lie on, never a bed; no walls, no ceiling to shut them in - or others out. Only the moon to see them, only the moon, some stars and whatever it was that had flown up out of the field when Ede had cried 'don't' in the final seconds of their embrace. Don't - meaning don't withdraw. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 18a2408 | Svet't, kaza toi, sv'rshva vseki den - i zapochva na sledvashchiia | Timothy Findley | ||
| 01cd197 | Zhivot't iziskva da go zhiveem do neponosimost. | Timothy Findley | ||
| f4c44f8 | The occupants of memory have to be protected from strangers. | Timothy Findley | ||
| bca94b7 | He took his aim. His arm wavered. His eyes burned with sweat. Why didn't someone come and jump on his back and make him stop? He fired. A chair fell over in his mind. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 3bc8fbc | You begin to arrange your research in bundles - letters - photos - telegrams. This is that last thing you see before you put on your overcoat: Robert and Rowena with Meg: Rowena seated astride the pony - Robert holding her in place. On the back is written: 'Look! You can see our breath!' And you can. | Timothy Findley | ||
| d998e2d | music is the worst of them - roiling and boiling - overly emotionalized on the one hand, overly intellectuallized on the other. Bach and Mozart indeed! Bach inevitably makes me think of fish in a barrel! round and round and round they go and nothing ever happens. Nothing ! Tum -de-dum-dum. Tum -de-dum-dum and that's all! Tum -de-dum-de-bloody-dum-dum! As for Mozart, his emotions did not mature beyond the age of twelve. never achieved adoles.. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 437d659 | When Mrs Ross asked him what he was thinking of, he shrugged. But he was thinking of the time he'd climbed the steeple of a church when he was ten-and had seen, for the very first time, the world spread out around him like a gift. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 0c6dce8 | Master Stuart made his letters into paper darts and launched them page by page from the roof of the house-watching them descend and fade into the green ravine below...Some he saved to trade at school for other artifacts of war sent home by other elder brothers like his own-but only the letters mailed from France were worthy of this exchange. They had to have the smell of fire. | Timothy Findley | ||
| ab90ab9 | Houses, trees and fields of flax once flourished here. Summers had been blue with flowers. Now it was a shallow sea of stinking grey from end to end. And this is where you fought the war. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 1e65201 | Happiness is not our goal. The achievement of happiness deflects us from our true destiny which is the utter realization of self. | philosophy | Timothy Findley | |
| 9b4c47b | Ako otseliavaneto i zavisi ot viarata i, che zhivee na Lunata, togava nie triabva da priemem neinata realnost, a ne tia nashata. | Timothy Findley | ||
| 2bf0069 | Um homem armado com a palavra certa pode fazer o que um exercito de espadachins nao pode. | Robin Hobb | ||
| f1d6f12 | When Lone Star conducts an investigation, standard procedure is to tap the telecoms of everyone even peripherally involved with the subject of the investigation. That's right, everyone, whether or not he or she is suspected of a crime. An infringement of personal rights? Morally and ethically speaking, you've got it, chummer. But according to the letter of the law, if not the spirit, it's kosher. As long, that is, as Lone Star notifies ever.. | Nigel Findley | ||
| a0ae8db | It was back in 2050 when Governor Schultz decided that all the Barrens needed was better lighting. At the cost of uncounted millions of nuyen, the city engineers--with Lone Star and Metroplex Guard units running cover--had installed high-intensity carbon arc lights everywhere they could get to safely. The residents of the Barrens had responded in typically warm Redmond manner by shooting most of them out. | Nigel Findley | ||
| e4ad8e8 | There's a reason prophets perform miracles: language lacks the power to describe faith. And you have to land on faith before you can even begin to hike around to its flip side, betrayal. | faith prophets relationships trust trustworthiness | Mohsin Hamid | |
| e3a93d9 | Perhaps they had decided they did not have it in them to do what would have needed to be done, to corral and bloody and where necessary slaughter the migrants, and had determined that some other way would have to be found. Perhaps they had grasped that the doors could not be closed, and new doors would continue to open, and they had understood that the denial of coexistence would have required one party to cease to exist, and the extinguish.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 7ecbcde | What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living as a human being, reminding oneself of what one was, and so it mattered, and if necessary was worth a fight. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 5cd0c80 | In many places, the past fifteen years have been a time of economic turmoil and widening disparities. Anger and resentment are high. And yet economic policies that might address these concerns seem nearly impossible to enact. Instead of the seeds of reform, we are given the yoke of misdirection. We are told to forget the sources of our discontent because something more important is at stake: the fate of our civilization. Yet what are these .. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 57308b8 | Saeed's father encountered each day objects that had belonged to his wife and so would sweep his consciousness out of the current others referred to as the present, a photograph or an earring or a particular shawl worn on a particular occasion, and Nadia encountered each day objects that took her into Saeed's past, a book or a music collection or a sticker on the inside of a drawer, and evoked emotions from her own childhood, and jagged mus.. | Mohsin Hamid |