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| a3495ef | An honest propagandist for any Cause, that is, one who honestly studies and figures out the most effective way of putting over his Message, will learn fairly early that it is not fair to ordinary folks--it just confuses them--to try to make them swallow all the true facts that would be suitable to a higher class of people. And one seemingly small but almighty important point he learns, if he does much speechifying, is that you can win over .. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 7224de6 | God, sir, men's souls and blood are not eggshells for tyrants to break! | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 7018979 | Manhattan peasants. Kind people, industrious people, generous to their aged, eager to find any desperate cure for the sickness of worry over losing the job. Most facile material for any rabble-rouser. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| e7a66fc | American whose fathers have lived in the country for over two generations is so utterly different from any other American. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 4dcfb05 | The creator of Alice in Wonderland was not just an expert in poetic nonsense; Lewis Carroll (or Charles Dodgson, to use his real name) was also an Oxford mathematician with a taste for symbolic logic and a distaste, in the sunset of the Victorian era, for new-fangled maths theories and practices. | Sinclair McKay | ||
| b609542 | Intellectually I know America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country," the novelist Sinclair Lewis" -- | Jon Meacham | ||
| f492951 | Now listen, Dad. You don't understand Senator Windrip. Oh, he's something of a demagogue--he shoots off his mouth a lot about how he'll jack up the income tax and grab the banks, but he won't--that's just molasses for the cockroaches. What he will do, and maybe only he can do it, is to protect us from the murdering, thieving, lying Bolsheviks that would--why, they'd like to stick all of us that are going on this picnic, all the decent clean.. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 63bf18c | Women, she pointed out, had done nothing with the vote. If the United States had only listened to her back in 1919 she could have saved them all this trouble. No. Certainly not. No votes. | votes voting women women-s-suffrage | Sinclair Lewis | |
| d6ab5de | Democracy--here and in Britain and France, it hasn't been so universal a sniveling slavery as Naziism in Germany, such an imagination-hating, pharisaic materialism as Russia--even if it has produced industrialists like you, Frank, and bankers like you, R. C., and given you altogether too much power and money. On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy's given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had. | democracy dignity germany money power russia united-states workers | Sinclair Lewis | |
| 35c7689 | Wait till Buzz takes charge of us. A real Fascist dictatorship!" "Nonsense! Nonsense!" snorted Tasbrough. "That couldn't happen here in America, not possibly! We're a country of freemen." "The answer to that," suggested Doremus Jessup, "if Mr. Falck will forgive me, is 'the hell it can't!' Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical--yes, or more obsequious!--than America. Look how Huey Long became absolute monarch ove.. | democracy dictatorships fascism hysterics united-states-of-america us usa | Sinclair Lewis | |
| e681df9 | It was Father Charles Coughlin, of Detroit, who had first thought out the device of freeing himself from any censorship of his political sermons on the Mount by "buying his own time on the air"-- it being only in the twentieth century that mankind has been able to buy Time as it buys soap and gasoline. This invention was almost equal, in its effect on all American life and thought, to Henry Ford's early conception of selling cars cheap to m.. | capitalism censorship henry-ford radio time | Sinclair Lewis | |
| f4ac083 | The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a" | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| e554607 | Any person advocating Communism, Socialism, or Anarchism, advocating refusal to enlist in case of war, or advocating alliance with Russia in any war whatsoever, shall be subject to trial for high treason, with a minimum penalty of twenty years at hard labor in prison, and a maximum of death on the gallows, or other form of execution which the judges may find convenient. | communism draft-dodging russia socialism treason | Sinclair Lewis | |
| 3aaa354 | I have no doubt that in heaven the angels will regard the blessed as a necessary evil. | Alan Bennett | ||
| 6e4ece4 | A mature science is governed by a single paradigm. | Alan Chalmers | ||
| d289704 | You cannot come here because you are not white. | Alan Clark | ||
| d98633d | After dinner the younger daughters desired to love Leora, in swarms. Martin had to take the twins on his knees and tell them a story. They were remarkably heavy twins, but no heavier than the labor of inventing a plot. Before they went to bed, the entire Healthette Octette sang the famous Health Hymn (written by Dr. Almus Pickerbaugh) which Martin was to hear on so many bright and active public occasions in Nautilus. It was set to the tune .. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| e318b84 | Doremus Jessup, so inconspicuous an observer, watching Senator Windrip from so humble a Boeotia, could not explain his power of bewitching large audiences. The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture, and his yet more celebrated humor the sly cynicism of a country store. Certainly there was nothin.. | common-man democracy politicians politics populism speeches | Sinclair Lewis | |
| c4c74e6 | Most of the mortgaged farmers. Most of the white-collar workers who had been unemployed these three years and four and five. Most of the people on relief rolls who wanted more relief. Most of the suburbanites who could not meet the installment payments on the electric washing machine. Such large sections of the American Legion as believed that only Senator Windrip would secure for them, and perhaps increase, the bonus. Such popular Myrtle B.. | politicians politics support voters | Sinclair Lewis | |
| b1e54af | West of Chicago, "You bet" means "Rather," and "Yes indeed," and "On the whole I should be inclined to fancy that there may be some vestiges of accuracy in your curious opinion," and "You're a liar but I can't afford to say so." | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 8f81dc9 | But she wasn't thinking "Yes." She was thinking, "Milt, what worries me now isn't how I can risk letting the 'nice people' meet you. It's how I can ever waste you on the 'nice people." | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 3f07992 | She looked up at columns of crimson and saffron and burning brown, up at the matronly falls, up at lone pines clinging to jutting rocks that must be already crashing toward her, and in the splendor she knew the Panic fear that is the deepest reaction to beauty. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 10f48cb | She knew the exaltation of starting out in the fresh morning for places she had never seen, without the bond of having to return at night. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| e8ccbad | Now of all the cosmic problems yet unsolved, not cancer nor the future of poverty are the flustering questions, but these twain: Which is worse, not to wear evening clothes at a party at which you find every one else dressed, or to come in evening clothes to a house where, it proves, they are never worn? And: Which is worse, not to tip when a tip has been expected; or to tip, when the tip is an insult? | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| efddc87 | She was used to gracious leisure, attractive uselessness, nut-center chocolates, and a certain wonder as to why she was alive. | Sinclair Lewis | ||
| 4e75361 | Upon my word!" Mrs Sinclair exclaimed. "At an early age, I believed my father was heir to the throne, and my lap dog was a unicorn. There comes a point in most people's lives when one learns to discern fact from invention." | Jessie Lewis | ||
| 62751f1 | Parisian Diabolism, for example, in so far as it may be admitted to exist, is the Black Magic of the Grimoire and not the sovereign horror of the Brothers of the Left Hand Path, wearing their iniquity like an aureole, and deathless in spiritual evil. These | Arthur Edward Waite | ||
| df50d6c | I am not a fascist. Fascists are shopkeepers, I am a Nazi. | Alan Clark | ||
| f0e46c5 | Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea. | Alan Coren | ||
| 9de8c04 | If the devil be actually among us, then for the sake of much which has seemed crass in orthodox religion, thus completely exonerated; for the sake of the fantastic in fiction and the lurid in legend, thus unexpectedly actualised; and, further, as it may be, for the sake of our own souls, we shall do well to know of it. If Abaddon, Apollyon, and the Lord of Flies are to be understood literally; above all, if they are liable to confront us in.. | Arthur Edward Waite | ||
| 6c01c31 | For himself he tarried only to witness the initiation of a Mistress-Templar according to the Palladian rite, which took place in a Presbyterian Chapel, the Presbyterian persuasion, as he tells us, being one of the broad roads leading to avowed Satanism. The | Arthur Edward Waite | ||
| 4eeb461 | Nor need I dwell at any length upon the personal communication which passed between Doctor Bataille, Albert Pike, Gallatin Mackey, Sophia Walder, Chambers, Webber, and the rest of the Charleston luminaries. Miss Walder explained to him the great hope of the Order concerning the speedy advent of anti-Christ, the abolition of the papacy, and the destruction of the Christian religion. She also related many of her private experiences with the i.. | Arthur Edward Waite | ||
| f9cfc14 | To be brief, Miss Vaughan has adopted, body and soul, precisely those abuses which Catholics of intelligence earnestly desire to see expunged from their great religion. She has probably never heard of the Forged Decretals, but she would defend their authenticity if she had; she has probably never heard of the corrupted, or any version of the Epistles of St Ignatius, but she would accept the corruptions bodily upon the smallest hint that the.. | Arthur Edward Waite | ||
| 3294eb7 | Kierkegaard seeks to un-socialize the individual in order to un-deify society. | Merold Westphal | ||
| 8f2bfe3 | A Computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state machines. | Alan Cox | ||
| cb83dba | Aprendamos esta leccion de Nehemias: usted nunca alivia la carga, a menos que antes haya sentido la presion en su propia alma. Usted no sera nunca usado por Dios para llevar bendicion, hasta que Dios le haya abierto los ojos y le haya hecho ver las cosas como son.4 | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| e0778f0 | When God puts His hand on a plain, ordinary person whom He has destined for leadership, that person is given mountain-matching abilities, whether he be a Roosevelt, a Lincoln, a Nehemiah-or a person like you or me. | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| b0bc57a | Someone has said, "Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance." I agree." | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| 2a24827 | We see the same scenario all too often today. People are told the good news of salvation by grace alone, only to respond with, "That's too simple. Where's the dignity? Where's the effort? If it's all that life changing, surely something sacrificial is required of me!" | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| 9557309 | success in the kingdom of God and in any local church depends upon the faithful people of whom the general public is unaware. | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| ac46cc0 | When we worship something, we are affirming its value to us. We do that with our actions as well as with our hearts. A | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| b2900eb | when he has to risk everything on his leap, and in the spiritual domain Jesus Christ demands that you risk everything you hold by common sense and leap into what He says. . . . Trust entirely in God, and when He brings you to the venture, see that you take it. We act like pagans in a crisis, only one out of a crowd is daring enough to bank his faith in the character of God.2 | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| 5ba2e0d | Third, God the Spirit will show us how to live and die as we learn how to release whatever has us in its grip. (That last phrase wasn't a mistake.) As long as we're owned by whatever we're clutching, we'll never be given over completely to the Holy Spirit. This would be an excellent moment for you to do some self-analysis. To what, to whom are you clinging? Let it go. Let them go. | Charles R. Swindoll | ||
| f24c9ff | Without our realizing it, we were trained to think that the most significant people are star athletes, actors, and musicians--the ones we applaud, those whose autographs others seek. They aren't. Not really. Most often, the people worth noting are the individuals who turn a "nobody" into a "somebody" but never receive credit." | Charles R. Swindoll |