Lincoln Steffens Quotes
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
Quotes to Explore
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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I am a very selfish person.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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If a local market is supporting the team strongly, you're not going to have a lot of support for a team leaving that market.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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Technological unemployment is scary for those affected - but has always gone hand in hand with economic progress.
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On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.
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As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories!
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We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
