Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
BILL MOYERSThe 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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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.
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The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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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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Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government.
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When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts.
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Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.
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I report the assault on nature evidenced in coal mining that tears the tops off mountains and dumps them into rivers, sacrificing the health and lives of those in the river valleys to short-term profit.
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You do it because there’s a story to be told. I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.
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There’s hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
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Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House – as Brutus loved Caesar.
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