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Bill Moyers

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Bill Moyers
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: June 5
Former White House Press Secretary
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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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Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.
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I own and operate a ferocious ego.
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Charity provides crumbs from the table justice offers a place at the table.
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[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.
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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
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When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.
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On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. 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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