"Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains……" — Lincoln Steffens
"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 written, the greatest poem is unsung. There isn't in all the world a perfect railroad, nor a good government, nor a sound law. Physics, mathematics, and especially the most advanced and exact of the sciences are being fundamentally revised. . . Psychology, economics, and sociology are awaiting a Darwin, whose work in turn is awaiting an Einstein."
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Lincoln Steffens
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52 Quotes by Lincoln Steffens
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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…
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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.…
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The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.
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First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough"…
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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,…
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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…
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The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a…
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My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into…
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Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.
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Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
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