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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated. – 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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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. – Walter Lippmann

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

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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with childen. – Robert Benchley

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What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. – Hansell B. Duckett

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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? – Jack Kerouac

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I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency. – Plato

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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. – W. E. B. Du Bois

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If you think that to grow a beard is to acquire wisdom, a goat with a fine beard is at once a complete Plato. – Lucian of Samosata, in The Greek Anthology, Volume IV, “Book XI: The Convivial a

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