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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Bill Moyers

Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.
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Fields Interesting Men
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
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Blue Fighting Nuts
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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Fire House Years
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
Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us.
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Thinking Warrior Winning
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician
Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.
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Moving Overboard Predator Standing
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That’s why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.
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Facts May Prepared
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Government Running White
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Democracy Library Matter
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
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Out Rivers Sacrifice Work
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

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