There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a…

Walter Lippmann
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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 (1955). Essays in the Public Philosophy, p.85, Transaction Publishers
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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 (1955). Essays in the Public Philosophy, p.85, Transaction Publishers

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