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Quotes from Public Opinion — Walter Lippmann

1889–1974 United States

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The facts we see depend on where we are placed, and the habits of our eyes.

Public Opinion (1922)

Looking back we can see how indirectly we know the environment in which nevertheless we live. We can see that the news of it comes to us now fast, now slowly; but that whatever we believe to be a true picture, we treat as if it were the environment itself.

Public Opinion (1922)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Walter Lippmann (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.