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It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

Walter Lippmann

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Walter Lippmann
Age: 85 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 23
Died: 1974
Died: December 14
Journalist
Politician
Writer
New York City
New York
Thinking
Poverty
Easier
Talk
Poor
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Think

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