Famous quote by Walter Lippmann

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"When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute"

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This quote is written / told by Walter Lippmann between September 23, 1889 and December 14, 1974. He/she was a famous Journalist from USA. The author also have 37 other quotes.

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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around"

"Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people"

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

Jose Rizal, Writer

"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people"

"The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy"

"Ambition is not a vice of little people"

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money"