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Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

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
Inner
Experience
Artist
Art
Others
Life
Enlarges
Admitting

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The size of a man's income has considerable effect on his access to the world beyond his neighborhood. With money he can overcome almost every tangible obstacle of communication, he can travel, buy books and periodicals, and bring within the range of his attention almost any known fact of the world.
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Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.
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So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.
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All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.
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We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.
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Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
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Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.
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Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.
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While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.
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Whatever truth you contribute to the world will be one lucky shot in a thousand misses. You cannot be right by holding your breath and taking precautions.
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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.
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Even God has been defended with nonsense.
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The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.Only at those points, where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide.
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Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
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You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.
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The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.
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If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascertained - then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.
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