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Inspirational Quotes by Lincoln Steffens
- The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.
- 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 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
- It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.
- It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.
- The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.
- The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.
- I am really puzzled to understand myself.
- My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.
- I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.
- I have been contending all my life, and always with God.
- Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
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- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento