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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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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. – Richard Whately

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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. – Benjamin Franklin (Thank you, Kyle.)

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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain

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