“We are all captives of the picture in our head – our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.” – Walter Lippmann
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"We are all captives of the picture in our head – our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists." – Walter Lippmann
"We are all captives of the picture in our head – our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists." – Walter Lippmann
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