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- Walter Lippmann: American writer, reporter, and political commentator
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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A man without ambition is like a bird without wings.
System: The Magazine of Business (1908) -
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
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I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
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I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
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Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
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The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.
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A cold, and cynical wisdom particularly disapproves of most men's best actions.
Biographical Studies (1881) -
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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