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Category: Walter Lippman

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

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

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate appease bribe seduce bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

It is only when we are in the habit of recognizing our opinions as a partial experience seen through our stereotypes that we become truly tolerant of an opponent.

stereotypes, tolerance, understanding