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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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Some defeats [are] more triumphant than victories. – Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588

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It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity. РMaurice Barre̬s, La Grande Piti̩ des ̩glises de France, 1914

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More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility. – Robert Gordon Menzies

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We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice. – John Dewey

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