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Bill Moyers

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Quotations and sayings

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Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.

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02Undated

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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03Undated

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

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04Undated

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

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05Undated

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

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06Undated

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

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07Undated

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

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08Undated

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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09Undated

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

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10Undated

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

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11Undated

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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