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America is the longest argument in the world.

Bill Moyers

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
Television can stir emotions, but it doesn’t invite reflection as much as the printed page.
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Pages Reflection Television
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?
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Children Helping Parents
America is the longest argument in the world.
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Argument Country World
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
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Democracy Political Soul
Our media and political system has turned into a mutual protection racket.
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Media Political Protection
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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