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Bill Moyers

We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it.
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Comfort Lying Reality
There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation.
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Animal Ark Expensive God Interception Men
I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .
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Approach Joined Journalism Strong
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Children Helping Parents
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Believe Country People
There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
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People Pills President
Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.
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Democracy Economy Greed
What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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Causes Doe Fighting
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
A people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.
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Die Less People Questions Skeptical
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.
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Facts Ideas Life Static
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Democracy Library Matter
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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Afternoon House Limit Term

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

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