“ ...the priests of all these cults, the singers, shouters, prayers and exhorters of Bootstraplifting have as their distinguishing characteristic that they do very little lifting at their own bootstraps, and less at any other man's. Now and then you may see one bend and give a delicate tug, of a purely symbolical character: as when the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Bootstraplifters comes once a year to wash the feet of the poor; or when the Sundayschool Superintendent of the Baptist Bootstraplifters shakes the hand of one of his Colorado mineslaves. But for the most part the priests and preachers of Bootstraplifting walk haughtily erect, many of them being so swollen with prosperity that they could not reach their bootstraps if they wanted to. Their role in life is to exhort other men to more vigorous efforts at selfelevation, that the agents of the Wholesale Pickpockets' Association may ply their immemorial role with less chance of interference. ”
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“ I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision. ”
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“ Consider Christmascould Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeatingall in the name of the lowly Jesus? ”
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“ There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside. ”
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“ It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. ”
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“ I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision. ”
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“ It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. ”
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“ It was the incarnation of blind and insensate Greed. It was a monster devouring with a thousand mouths, trampling with a thousand hoofs; it was the Great Butcher — it was the spirit of Capitalism made flesh. ”
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“ The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away… ”
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“ I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. ”
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“ There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside. ”
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“ I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. ”
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“ I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision. ”
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“ Consider Christmascould Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeatingall in the name of the lowly Jesus? ”
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