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Bill Moyers

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Bill Moyers
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: June 5
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Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.
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Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.
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[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.
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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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In those days [1955], affirmative action was for whites only. I might still be working for the grocery store in the small Texas town where I grew up were it not for affirmative action for Southern white boys.
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The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation.
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There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.
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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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In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
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When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
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Barack Obama treated too lightly the people and forces determined to destroy him. They spat in his face and didn't even get ticketed for a misdemeanor.
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