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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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 man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.
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The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.
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