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Walter Lippmann Quotes: Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.
         

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.


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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.



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There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.



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The news and the truth are not the same thing.



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The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.



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To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.



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It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?





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