Lincoln Steffens - The autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (1931)

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Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

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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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Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.

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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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It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

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It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

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My summary of all our experiences was that it showed that heaven and hell are one place, and we all go there. To those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not fit and ready, it is hell.

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The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

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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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We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

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