"The news is not a mirror of social conditions, but the report of an aspect that has obtruded itself."

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Walter Lippmann

#Mirrors Quotes #News Quotes #Social Quotes

“People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it.”
“We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.”
“Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.”
“I want to keep playing at the kind of level where I'll get respect from everybody.”
“When a society is criticised by outsiders, its members wince but shrug their shoulders. 'What you can expect from strangers?' is the feeling. When the attack comes from within, no such indulgence is shown. 'He was one of us,' runs the refrain.”
“I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.”
“You have to fight gravity.”
“Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!”

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