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Somanyself-styledJohn Brownsrighteousandragingoncurb sidesstreet cornersgrassy knolls
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“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”
― The Jungle
― The Jungle
“A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.”
― Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
― Mammonart: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
“Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.”
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