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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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I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.
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Issues Mean Revolutionary Ideas
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creative Creativity Piercings
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Allow Claims Democracy People
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.
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Civilization People Reciprocity
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
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
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician
Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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Government Running White
We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples.
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Reality Thinking Views
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
The thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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Gorges Unyielding War

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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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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