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«What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
shots, tee, teed, tee up, The Practice
«This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.»
«Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Ideals,
Understanding
| Keywords:
desirable, imaginative
«A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Journalism
| Keywords:
air space, heads of state, head of state, journalist, Presidents
«Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
radical, Radical Change, social change, social changes, verities, verity, vessel
«Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Authority,
Freedom,
Mankind
| Keywords:
assurances, consoling, economy, Economy of, preferred
«The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Belief,
Religion
| Keywords:
atoms, contingent, contingent on, modern science, novelty, preferences, radical, rejection
«The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
opponents, statesman, supporter, supporters, The opposition
«Successful politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
appease, appeases, appeasing, bamboozle, bamboozled, bamboozles, bribe, constituencies, constituency, intimidated, placate, politically
«Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
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