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“John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.”
“Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams.”
“The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.”
“Eugene Debs entered jail a moderate Unionist and emerged a Socialist.”
“In imperial relationships, getting out proves much more complicated than getting in.”
“The strike spread with the speed of telepathy.”