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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.

Bill Moyers

How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Children Helping Parents
In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That’s why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.
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Facts May Prepared
The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it’s no longer an eagle and it’s going to crash.
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Bargain Ease Longer Ordinary People
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
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
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
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
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it’s taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.
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People Struggle Taken
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch’s empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.
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Empires Media Radio
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians – they stay bought.
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Honest Journalist Politician
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
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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Freedom Hands Writing
I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Camera Men Team

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