"There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed and ritual, its heavens and hells. Each has its thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of true believers each damns all the others with more or less heartiness - and each is a mighty fortress of graft."

-- Upton Sinclair

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“The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away...”
“I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.”
“If your faith in reality is based on the belief that time moves in one direction only, the foundation of your faith will be shattered by the experience of the future.”
“Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.”

Source : 'The Borough' (1810) Letter 3 'The Vicar' l. 138
“Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.”
“A lot of the touring stuff has become a drag. Traveling itself is a drag. Anyone who's been to an airport knows that.”
“When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.”
“I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?”

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