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Upton Sinclair : There is, I discover, a regular propaganda on foot; a long time ago — no man can recall how far back — the Wholesale Pickpockets made the discovery of the ease with which a man's pockets could be rifled while he was preoccupied with spiritual exercises, and they began offering prizes for the best essays in support of the practice. # Propaganda # Life and Living # Time and Time Management

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Albert Schweitzer : " Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid. Again and again their will-to-live becomes, as it were, intoxicated: spring sunshine, opening flowers moving clouds, waving fields of grain — all affect it. The manifold will-to-live, which is known to us in the splendid phenomena in which it clothes itself, grasps at their personal wills. They would fain join their shouts to the mighty symphony which is proceeding all around them. The world seem beauteous...but the intoxication passes. Dreadful discords only allow them to hear a confused noise, as before, where they had thought to catch the strains of glorious music. The beauty of nature is obscured by the suffering which they discover in every direction. And now they see again that they are driven about like shipwrecked persons on the waste of ocean, only that the boat is at one moment lifted high on the crest of the waves and a moment later sinks deep into the trough; and that now sunshine and now darkening clouds lie on the surface of the water. And now they would fain persuade themselves that land lies on the horizon toward which they are driven. Their will-to-live befools their intellect so that it makes efforts to see the world as it would like to see it. It forces this intellect to show them a map which lends support to their hope of land. Once again they essay to reach the shore, until finally their arms sink exhausted for the last time and their eyes rove desperately from wave to wave. ... Thus it is with the will-to-live when it is unreflective. But is there no way out of this dilemma? Must we either drift aimlessly through lack of reflection or sink in pessimism as the result of reflection? No. We must indeed attempt the limitless ocean, but we may set our sails and steer a determined course. " # Propaganda # Life and Living # Time and Time Management

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Marshall Mcluhan : " The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times. " # Propaganda # Life and Living # Time and Time Management

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I F Stone : " Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda. " # Propaganda # Life and Living # Time and Time Management

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Vladimir Mayakovsky : " He was perhaps the only tolerable propaganda poet of all time: he meant it, and the energy he put into it was, as is frequently said, demonic. " # Propaganda # Life and Living # Time and Time Management

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Curtis LeMay : " I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them. " # Propaganda # Life and Living # Time and Time Management

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Bertrand Russell : " It is not altogether true that persuasion is one thing and force is another. Many forms of persuasion — even many of which everybody approves — are really a kind of force. Consider what we do to our children. We do not say to them: "Some people think the earth is round, and others think it is flat; when you grow up, you can, if you like, examine the evidence and form your own conclusion." Instead of this we say: "The earth is round." By the time our children are old enough to examine the evidence, our propaganda has closed their minds. " # Propaganda # Life and Living # Time and Time Management

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Pancho Segura : " An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging. " # Propaganda # Life and Living # Time and Time Management

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Boris Becker : " Every time you are not practicing someone else is. " # Propaganda # Life and Living # Time and Time Management

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Eric Lindros : " It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice. " # Propaganda # Life and Living # Time and Time Management

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Voltaire : " The discover of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy. " # Propaganda # Life and Living # Time and Time Management

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Upton Sinclair: " It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." # Understanding

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Upton Sinclair: " The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery." # Credit # Slavery # Control

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Upton Sinclair: " I have lived in Germany and know its language and literature, and the spirit and ideals of its rulers. Having given many years to a study of American capitalism, I am not blind to the defects of my own country; but, in spite of these defects, I assert that the difference between the ruling class of Germany and that of America is the difference between the seventeenth century and the twentieth. No question can be settled by force, my pacifist friends all say. And this in a country in which a civil war was fought and the question of slavery and secession settled! I can speak with especial certainty of this question, because all my ancestors were Southerners and fought on the rebel side; I myself am living testimony to the fact that force can and does settle questions — when it is used with intelligence. In the same way I say if Germany be allowed to win this war — then we in America shall have to drop every other activity and devote the next twenty or thirty years to preparing for a last-ditch defence of the democratic principle." # Peace # America # Friends and Friendship

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Upton Sinclair: " Fascism is capitalism plus murder." # Fascism # Capitalism # Murder

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Upton Sinclair: " What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of "art for art's sake" than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore — and then there will be time enough for art." # Names # Arts and Artists # Beauty

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Upton Sinclair: " Let us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love, which knows that it is not free!" # Love # Freedom # Words

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Upton Sinclair: " I know you are brave and unselfish people, making sacrifices for a great principle but I cannot join you. I believe in the present effort which the allies are making to suppress German militarism. I would approve of America going to their assistance. I would enlist to that end, if ever there be a situation where I believe I could do more with my hands than I could with my pen." # Writers and Writing # America # Courage

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Upton Sinclair: " American capitalism is predatory, and American politics are corrupt: The same thing is true in England and the same in France; but in all these three countries the dominating fact is that whatever the people get ready to change the government, they can change it. The same thing is not true of Germany, and until it was made true in Germany, there could be no free political democracy anywhere else in the world — to say nothing of any free social democracy. My revolutionary friends who will not recognize this fact seem to me like a bunch of musicians sitting down to play a symphony concert in a forest where there is a man-eating tiger loose. For my part, much as I enjoy symphony concerts, I want to put my fiddle away in its case and get a rifle and go out and settle with the tiger." # Friends and Friendship # Politicians and Politics # America

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Upton Sinclair: " I am a person who has never used violence himself. My present opinion is that people who have obtained the ballot should use it and solve their problems in that way. In the case of peoples who have not obtained the ballot, and who cannot control their states, I again find in my own mind a division of opinion, which is not logical, but purely a rough practical judgment. My own forefathers got their political freedom by violence; that is to say, they overthrew the British crown and made themselves a free Republic. Also by violence they put an end to the enslavement of the black race on this continent." # Freedom # Politicians and Politics # Happiness

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Upton Sinclair: " All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda." # Propaganda # Arts and Artists # Family

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