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Walter Lippmann Quotes: The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
         

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.


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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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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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