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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

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In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life – one’s own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.
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Circles Enough Land Tribe War
When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Blind Couple Theology
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
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
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
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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Jobs People Trying
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
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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People Pills President
An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias.
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Fighting Lying Media
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.
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Government Long Running
…there is no more effective public interest watchdog in Washington, D.C.
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Integrity Interest Public Interest
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
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
But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.
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Democratic Freedom Mean Political Social System Today

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

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