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   Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations.  1989.
 
 
NUMBER:696
AUTHOR:Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936)
QUOTATION:“So you’ve been over into Russia?” said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, “I have been over into the future and it works.”
ATTRIBUTION:LINCOLN STEFFENS, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, vol. 2, chapter 18, p. 799 (1931, reprinted 1958).

  Steffens had made his second trip to Russia in 1919, as part of a mission sent by President Woodrow Wilson.
SUBJECTS:Future
 
 
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