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Lincoln Steffens

Lincoln Joseph Steffens (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) 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. He is remembered for investigating corruption in municipal government in American cities and for his early support for the Soviet Union.

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My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

Father, Irregular, Light, Mother, Slower

One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

Awful, Father, Lie, Lying, Morning

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.

Government, Habits, People, Psychology, Soviet

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

Administration, Government, Reform, Revolt, Revolutionary

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

Chance, Chicago, Cities, Give, Giving

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

Father, Games, Mother, Occasion

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

Father, Realize, Son, Watch, Watches

The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.

Best Picture, Greatest, Ninety Nine, Opportunity, Percent, Remains

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.

Atom, Knowledge, Ninety Nine, Science, Sensible, Soul

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

Became, Captains, Mother, Spoons, Steamboat, Thimble

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

American, Misgovernment, People

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

Credit, Honor, Individual, Principles, Trade

Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

Baby, Eye, Eyes, Genius, Know

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

Honest, Men, Office, Public, Serve

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

Atheism, Ethics, Moral, Morality, Voluntary

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

Atheism, Fear, Greater, Lies, Lying, Requires

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

American, American Spirit, Graft, Lawlessness, Spirit

Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Chance, Jumping, Men, Somebody, Tree, Trees

I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

Contending, God, Has Beens, Life

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

Chicago, Cities, Dirt, Irreverent, Spectacle, Village

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