Quote by Walter Lippmann
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jollie

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. – Walter Lippmann

Other quotes by Walter Lippmann

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. – Walter Lippmann

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Government
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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. – Walter Lippmann

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Knowledge
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This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man – if man is not enslaved by it. – Jonas Salk

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Technology

Our business is about technology, yes. But its also about operations and customer relationships. – Michael Dell

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Technology

Ive been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. Ive been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science. – Ann Druyan

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Technology

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. Its supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us. – Tracy Chapman

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Technology

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prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into – Don Marquis

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No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences. – David R. Ellis

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My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals. – Alastair Campbell

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The question isnt at what age I want to retire, its at what income. – George Foreman

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