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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

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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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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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Walter Lippmann
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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. – Walter Lippmann

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Science
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Walter Lippmann
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Im in the studio 24 hours a day. Its true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves. – Puff Daddy

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I want to make sure I dont interfere with the success of that team next year. I dont see any way I could go to practice like most of em do, and not hurt the team. Id go nuts if I tried doing that. – Bear Bryant

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They succeed, because they think they can. – Virgil

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I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. – Golda Meir

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When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that its like the picked-on kid who has to become funny. – Scott Thompson

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It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics. – Paul Wellstone

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Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. – Michel de Montaigne

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Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960s. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club. – Jack Nicklaus

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