Lincoln Steffens Quotes

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• Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at…
• In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to…
• The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.
• Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't…
• First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for…
• Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
• Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like…
• I have seen the future, and it works.
• So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.
• The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings
• My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an…
• Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.
• Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
• The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.
• Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know
• My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
• It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.
• In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that…
• I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.
• It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

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