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Quote by Upton Sinclair
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his sala

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

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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. – Lord Chesterfield

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Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. – Anatole France

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For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. – Elizabeth Bowen

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