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WOW! I don't often award five stars. Palaces of the Crow deserves every one. The harrowing survival of four teenagers in the Bloodlands of Eastern Europe during some of the 20th centuries most insane years, i.e., WWII. There are very few friends in th ...more |
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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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