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Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a

Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. – Walter Lippmann

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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority. – Walter Lippmann

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Minorities
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Walter Lippmann
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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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Walter Lippmann
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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. – Walter Lippmann

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Science
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Wherever you see a man who gives someone elses corruption, someone elses prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. – John Jay Chapman

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The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. – Bess Myerson

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The USA has become government by the highest bidder because USA voters do not hold politicians accountable. – Don Mashak

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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, — luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. – Cyril Connolly

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Work hard, use your common sense and dont be afraid to trust your instincts. – Fred L. Turner

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But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? – James Thomson

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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. – John Dryden

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If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched. – Erika Slezak

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