"When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism"
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"She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them."
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"I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever."
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"It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write."
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"What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature's hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God's marvelous firmament!"
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"Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue."
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"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."
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"The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is....""
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"Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-"
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"Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive."
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"When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag."
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"I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts."
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"I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now — and we're going to try our hands at it."
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"There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live."
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"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."
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"Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service."
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"Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag."
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"Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead."
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"Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy."
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"Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds."
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