The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under …

Walter Lippmann
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else. ✨ Walter Lippmann (1960). A Preface to Morals, p.308, Transaction Publi … ▶
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

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