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No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow.
Walter Lippmann
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Walter Lippmann
Age: 85 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 23
Died: 1974
Died: December 14
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A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.
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A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of society. To cut off the income of the useless will not impair their efficiency. They have none to impair. It will, in fact, compel them to acquire a useful function.
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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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In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.
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To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.
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Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.
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Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.
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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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Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions that neither stunt the imagination nor let it run to uncontrolled fantasy, there you have the family that modern men are seeking to create.
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When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.
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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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The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.
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Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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