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[T]here is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

— Walter Lippmann The Good Society (1937)

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The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolate persons.

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

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