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Lincoln Steffens has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are…
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The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.
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Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the…
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First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities,…
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Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
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Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down…
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I have seen the future, and it works.
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So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and…
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The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field…
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My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward…
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Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.
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Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.
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England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss…
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Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are…
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You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation…
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What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith…
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If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair, if you're going to San Francisco, you're…
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
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No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who…
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Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence.…
— Richard Dawkins
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The Russian people, sober, are said to be a gentle people.
— Lincoln Steffens
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