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Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

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
Mortals
Ideas
Men
Mortal
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There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.
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The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their failure will be a tragedy for civilization, a loss of cooperative effort, a baulking of energy, and the fixing in American life of a class-structure.
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Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.
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At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.
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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
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Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.
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Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.
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Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
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The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.
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Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.
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