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Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.
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 devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.
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Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.
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