A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.

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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which...

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which...

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics...

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics...

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a...

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a...

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking...

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking...

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We...

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We...

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it...

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it...

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single...

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single...

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift...

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift...

Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried...

Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried...

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if...

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if...

All progress is experimental.

All progress is experimental.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift...

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift...

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our...

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our...

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual...

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual...

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

Politics is just show business for ugly people.