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We Americans can't seem to get it that you can't commit rape a little.
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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 doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.
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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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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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Born:
April 6, 1866
Died:
August 9, 1936
(aged 70)
Bio:
Lincoln Joseph Steffens was a New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's, called Tweed Days in St. Louis, that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities.
Known for:
The Shame of the Cities (1904)
The autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (1931)
The struggle for self-government (1901)
The System: Journalism 1897 - 1920
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