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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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My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the…
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And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or…
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I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally wrote 'rarely'…
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