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Quote by Walter Lippmann
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. – Walter Lippmann

Other quotes by Walter Lippmann

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. – Walter Lippmann

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Society
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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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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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Corruption
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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. – Booker T. Washington

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Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. – Democritus

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Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you arent sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better. – John Carmack

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When everything happens to you when youre so young, youre very lucky, but by the same token, youre never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you – your first love, your first success – the second one is never the same. – Lauren Bacall

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In the sixties, you could always insult a guy by calling him “plastic.” It meant he was phony or superficial. The opposite of plastic was “real.” – Elizabeth Royte, Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, 2005

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Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. – George Bernard Shaw

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But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. – Erwin Rommel

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There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is. – Bill Bradley

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