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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
What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths – half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. They paraded before us as informed opinion.
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Informed Opinion Perhaps Political
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
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Arrows Ideas Motivational
The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it’s no longer an eagle and it’s going to crash.
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Bargain Ease Longer Ordinary People
Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us.
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Thinking Warrior Winning
You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.
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Democracy Long People
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
David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital.
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Class Country Men People
Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats – the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms – while the field hands are left with the scraps.
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Fields Hands Running
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me.
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Adults Continuing Journalism
Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as magnanimous as malicious, at times proud and sensitive, at times paranoid and darkly uneasy with himself. Freud would have had a field day with him.
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Fields Interesting 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
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
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
Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.
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Done Fun Television
Our children are being raised by appliances.
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Appliances Children Raised

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

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