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[The scientist] hates the preachers who talk their fables, but he is not too kindly to the anthropologists and historians who can only make guesses, yet they have the nerve to call themselves scientists!

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Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

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There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

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Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

Born: February 7, 1885
Died: January 10, 1951 (aged 65)
Bio: Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
Known for:
  1. Babbitt (1922)
  2. Main Street (1920)
  3. It Can't Happen Here (1935)
  4. Arrowsmith (1925)
  5. Dodsworth (1929)
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