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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 more quotations on [Science]
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
  - Walter Lippmann more quotations on [America]
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 more quotations on [America]
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings.
  - Walter Lippmann more quotations on [Freedom]
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 more quotations on [Politics]
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.
  - Walter Lippmann more quotations on [Technology]
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