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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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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples…
— Barbara Tuchman
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Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere…
— Jeremy Bentham
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The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.
— Lincoln Steffens
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We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as…
— William E. Gladstone
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REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an…
— Ambrose Bierce
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A revolution, in politics, is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. The substitution of the rule of an administration for…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
— Ambrose Bierce
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