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There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

~Walter Lippmann

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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

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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.

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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.

~Walter Lippmann

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Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

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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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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 23rd, 1889

Died: December 14th, 1974

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