"The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of……" — Lincoln Steffens
"The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it."
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52 Quotes by Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens has 52 quotes on this site.
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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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Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet…
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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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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
— Roland Barthes
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most…
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