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Walter Lippmann
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. ✨ Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy, p.392, Harvard University Press
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. ✨ Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy, p.392, Harvard University Press

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