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“ ...we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture of the opposition, that it takes as fact, not what is, but what it supposes to be the fact. ”

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

~ Walter Lippmann

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

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

~ Walter Lippmann

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

~ Walter Lippmann