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Bill Moyers
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: June 5
Former White House Press Secretary
Journalist
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Charity provides crumbs from the table justice offers a place at the table.
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Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.
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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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What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
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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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Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most memorable sentences in the English language are also the shortest: The King is dead and Jesus wept.
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
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Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.
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Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.
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I really believe that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table faith-based justice offers a place at the table.
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