It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

—Upton Sinclair

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About Upton Sinclair

Portrait of Upton Sinclair

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. He wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the...

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.

—Upton Sinclair

Is it altogether a Utopian dream that once in history a ruling class might be willing to make the great surrender and permit social change to come about without hatred, turmoil, and waste of human life?

—Upton Sinclair

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If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

—Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

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If you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.

—J. P. Donleavy

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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

—Stephen Leacock

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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for—in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

—Ellen Goodman

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