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To virtually all of his idiosyncrasies I, after much thought, have applied what another author once told me was the most sacred word in a great editor’s vocabulary. That word is “stet.”
EUGENE VICTOR DEBS 1855-1929 While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there is a soul in prison I am not free.
profanity and obscenity entitle people who don’t want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
The 2 prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.
I HAVE JUST looked up Harvard University. It has 13,000,000 bound volumes now. What a read! And almost every book written for or about the ruling class. * *
I AM NOT writing this book for people below the age of 18, but I see no harm in telling young people to prepare for failure rather than success, since failure is the main thing that is going to happen to them.
the most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.
“So we both know what it is,” he said, “to be shipped to an alien land on a dangerous mission of vainglorious lunacy!”
I think any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever the people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today. *
