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The significant thing is that familiarity has bred indifference if not contempt.
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgThe significant thing is that familiarity has bred indifference if not contempt.
Dewey notes that familiarity with political issues can lead to public indifference.
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But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.
That and that only gives reality to public opinion.
Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.
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