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I take “We, the People” seriously because I don’t know how we build a civilization without reciprocity.

Bill Moyers

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
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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First Firsts Monopoly Time
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
A people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.
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Die Less People Questions Skeptical
I really believe that coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
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Believe Fate Spiritual
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.
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Fire House Years
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised
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
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
We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we’ll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we’ll not save democracy from its own inertia.
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Country Democracy Independent
Yet 91 percent think it’s “not likely” that its influence will be lessened. Think about that: People know what’s right to do yet don’t think it can or will be done.
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Done Lessened Right Think
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
The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it’s changing the conversation.
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Country Election Fault History
Barack Obama strikes me as a man of strong principles and weak convictions – the kind of guy who would rather teach constitutional law than practice it, or who’d rather watch the match alone on TV than arm-wrestle his opponents.
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Country Law Men President Strong
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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Democracy Library Matter

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