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How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?

Bill Moyers

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
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
The most encouraging sign is that 71 percent of the public believe the system is profoundly corrupted by the power of money. Ninety-six percent of the people believe it’s “important” that we reduce the influence of money.
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Believe People Thinking
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 media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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Country Hyperbole Johnson Oxygen
Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn’t even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
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Determined Faces People
Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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Country Government Mean
Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Block Democracy Long
We don’t care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.
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Care Children Television
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.
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Citizen Ordinary Struggle
It’s the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there’s still hope.
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Grassroots People Thinking
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

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