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Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
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My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.
Lincoln Steffens
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Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
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We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
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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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In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.
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My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
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It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.
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If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.
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I have been contending all my life, and always with God.
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The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.
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If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.
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Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
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Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.
Lincoln Steffens