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I can't stand to sit by and watch all this go on

The church as well as man's pride keeps the population explosion going, only the very richest are entitled to adequate medical treatment, and the very attitude of so-called big business is to turn its head away from any disastrous truth that does not drastically affect us today. For them, tomorrow …

—p.110 The Waterfront Writers: The Literature of Work Ridiculous Secrets (98) missing author
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it was too late for me

[...] I kept mute, for our mere walking along, and my knowing where we were going (which place I wanted to attend anyway), and knowing also that the professor felt it to be a surprise all brought a great joy to me, which joy I was certain was the germ of our very gaiety in living. If only I could m…

—p.107 Ridiculous Secrets (98) missing author
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they had merely supplanted one false value with another

[...] I took his comment to mean that those who did not belong to the Nazi Party had their strength before Hitler's advent and had maintained it. I found this quite a stimulating attitude on the part of many Germans. Of course, some had followed the party, but even in these I saw a begrudging sense…

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imprecate

I shouted German imprecations after the S.O.B.

—p.103 Ridiculous Secrets (98) missing author
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pride in each block of granite

[...] Tomorrow I shall stand in front of the Dom, which is one of the world's tallest churches -- there's another taller in France or somewhere, I believe ... then go inside to stare up at the prodigious vaulted ceiling. What on earth did man have
in mind to construct such a building? It has no ut…

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