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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.
Walter Lippmann
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Walter Lippmann
Age: 85 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 23
Died: 1974
Died: December 14
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The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
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The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples.
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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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