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Bill Moyers

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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might Pay Strength
I was not a public – I was not a thinker. I was a doer.
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Doers Public Thinkers
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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Always Blind Fact Ideology Politicians
Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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Pages Reflection Television
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma – the science of the heart…the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
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Believe Heart Need People
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection
Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it’s marinated in humor.
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Democracy Mark Veins
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People
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 really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
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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Moving Overboard Predator Standing
Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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Alive Beauty Expression
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn’t eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents.
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Children Long People
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest

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