Upton Sinclair Quotes
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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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
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I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.
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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre.
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I really liked Kishore Kumar. He had a virile man's voice, and he was truly versatile.
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Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.
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I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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I believed - and believe - that capitalism works best for a freedom-loving society, that it brings more prosperity to more people than any other social-economic system, but that somehow we have to take care of people.
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For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas
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For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.
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Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.
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the full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will show in detail, essentially corresponds to the Cartesian idea of thought.
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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.
