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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

Bill Moyers

Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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Alive Beauty Expression
What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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Believe Heart Need People
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
When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, “Give me this day my daily bread.” It was always, “Give us this day our daily bread.” That stuck. We’re all in this together.
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Giving Grow Up Together
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
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
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
But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
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Democratic Freedom Mean Political Social System Today
Yet 91 percent think it’s “not likely” that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what’s right to do yet don’t think it can or will be done.
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Done Lessened Right Think
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.
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Couple Reality Religion
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
I believe democracy requires a ‘sacred contract’ between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.
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Believe Media Trust

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

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