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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Bill Moyers

I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
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
The thing about war is that once it’s triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.
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Gorges Unyielding War
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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News People Want
Unless you’re willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you’ve got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there’s no use even trying.
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Blue Fighting Nuts
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
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Alive Beauty Expression
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don’t go hungry, unschooled or sick without care.
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Commitment Order Sick
Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.
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Democracy Heart Voting
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
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Ethics People Stranger
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don’t talk about what democracy means – what it bestows on us.
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Issues Mean Revolutionary Ideas
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Imagination Self War
In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a “war on terror” – exactly what, pray tell, is that?
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Mind Police Tracking War
What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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Causes Doe Fighting
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
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Students Teacher Teaching

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

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