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Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.
Lincoln Steffens
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Lincoln Steffens
Age: 70 †
Born: 1866
Born: April 6
Died: 1936
Died: August 9
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Lincoln Austin Steffens
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I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.
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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 only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.
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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 position of an authority I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.
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My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.
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It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.
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The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.
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If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.
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It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.
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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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The unknown is the province of the student it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings
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The best picture has not yet been painted the greatest poem is still unsung the mightiest novel remains to be written the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.
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My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
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We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.
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It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done not often.
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I have been contending all my life, and always with God.
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I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.
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I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.
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Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
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Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
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