Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
BILL MOYERSWhen a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life – one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.
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To the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.
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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
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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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Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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The President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.
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Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.
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America is the longest argument in the world.
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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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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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