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America is the longest argument in the world.

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
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Democracy Library Matter
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
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.
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Advice Giving Inspirational
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
America’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits – the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
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Country Cutting Direction One
Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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Allow Claims Democracy People
Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.
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Baptists Culture Religious
We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it.
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Comfort Lying Reality
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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Creativity Scientist
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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Believe Country People
The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.
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Democracy Media Quality
I’m the front man, I’m the man on camera, but there’s a whole team beyond me.
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Camera Men Team
Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.
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Done Journalist Reporting Truth
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
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
Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
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Charity Justice Tables
There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation.
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Animal Ark Expensive God Interception Men
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.
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Knows More President
To the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.
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Determine Embedded Moral Quiet Street
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
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
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
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
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
When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, “Give me this day my daily bread.” It was always, “Give us this day our daily bread.” That stuck. We’re all in this together.
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Giving Grow Up Together
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

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