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• A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.

  Upton Sinclair

  Jesus, Believe, School

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• In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

  Upton Sinclair

  Twilight, Vision, Chicago

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.37, First Avenue Editions

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• So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled to several inches of margin at the right-hand edge; and the man approaching you was entitled to an equal number of inches; which left a remainder of inches between the two projectiles as they shot by. It sounds risky as one tells it, but the heavens are run on the basis of similar calculations, and while collisions do happen, they leave time enough in between for universes to be formed, and successful careers conducted by men of affairs.

  Upton Sinclair

  Running, Successful, Men

  Upton Sinclair (2007). “Oil!”, p.2, Penguin

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