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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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Envy like fire always makes for the highest points. ↗

— Titus Livius

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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists. ↗

— 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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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not. ↗

— James Lipton

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