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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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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
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions – the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who’d rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents.
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Country Law Men President Strong
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
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
People who don’t believe in government are likely to defy our government.
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Believe Government People
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.
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Commitment Gone Information
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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Journalism Libel Mistakes
I can’t speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
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Believe Speak War
I’m angry at what’s happening to America and angry with myself that I can’t do more. I would be miserable if I couldn’t bear witness.
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Angry Bears Country
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
This “degenerate and unlovely age,” as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
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Degenerate Governance Politics Seminal
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
Democracy doesn’t begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls ‘The Patriot’s Dream.
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Blood Dream Fighting

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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