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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft. ↗

— James Lipton

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Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them. ↗

— Titus Livius

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All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea. ↗

— John Mayer

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If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen. ↗

— James Lipton

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