While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.

Walter Lippmann
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  1. What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

  2. It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

  3. 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.

  4. The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

  5. His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.

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