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“ Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors. ”

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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

~ Walter Lippmann

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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.

~ Walter Lippmann

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The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

~ Walter Lippmann

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His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.

~ Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann Leadership Opponents Opposition Politics Pushing Support