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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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Lincoln Steffens

Lincoln Steffens
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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:
  1. The Shame of the Cities (1904)
  2. The autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (1931)
  3. The struggle for self-government (1901)
  4. The System: Journalism 1897 - 1920

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