Walter Lippmann

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

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What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors

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There are portions of the sovereign people who spend most of their spare time and spare money on motoring and comparing motor cars, on bridge-whist and post-mortems, on moving pictures and potboilers, talking always to the same people with minute variations on the same old themes. They cannot really be said to suffer from censorship, or secrecy, the high cost or the difficulty of communication. They suffer from anemia, from lack of appetite and curiosity for the human scene. Theirs is no problem of access to the world outside. Worlds of interest are waiting for them to explore, and they do not enter

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If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power