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The news and the truth are not the same thing.

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
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Truth
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.
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Even God has been defended with nonsense.
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For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture.
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And the principle which distinguishes democracy from all other forms of government is that in a democracy the opposition not only is tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained because it is in fact indispensable.
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