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Quote by Walter Lippmann
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and

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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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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Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. – Walter Lippmann

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We cant have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. – Thomas Aquinas

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. – Thomas J. Watson

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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years. – Isaac Hanson

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To say, well done to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge. – Phillips Brooks

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