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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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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Dream Freedom Tyrants
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care.
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Commitment Order Sick
What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths – half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
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Informed Opinion Perhaps Political
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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Knows More President
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn’t eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents.
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Children Long People
America’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits – the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
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Country Cutting Direction One
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Allow Claims Democracy People
You do it because there’s a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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Complicated Job People Told Truth Trying
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Blind Couple Theology
Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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Done Journalist Reporting Truth
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creative Creativity Piercings

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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