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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

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Bill Moyers
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: June 5
Former White House Press Secretary
Journalist
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I really believe that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
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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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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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Charity provides crumbs from the table justice offers a place at the table.
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Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
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[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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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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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
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When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And I think we are this close to losing democracy to the mercenary class.
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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly veneration of wealth are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.
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These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels.
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News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.
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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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The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more responsive to affluent constituents than to middle-class constituents, while the opinions of constituents in the bottom third of income distribution have no apparent effect at all on the Senate's roll call votes.
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