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"Ernest Hemingway, thinking of himself, as always, once said that all American literature grew out of Huck Finn. It undoubtedly would have been better for American literature and American culture, if our literature had grown out of one of the best-selling novels of all time, another American work of the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin."    By Jane Smiley    [fullquote]

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"We experience the world through stories. Whoever tells the stories of a culture defines the terms, the agenda, and the common issues we face."    By Geroge Gerbner    [fullquote]

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Time and again, when the situation demands it, America has saved capitalism from its own excesses. We put ideology aside and do what's necessary. No other nation is as fundamentally pragmatic. We will reverse the trend toward widening inequality eventually. We have no choice. But we must organize and mobilize in order that it be done.    By Robert Reich    [fullquote]

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Though we often don't think of them this way, property rights, when conferred by law, are a quintessential form of government regulation. They determine who owns what, and they say who may do what to whom.    By Cass Sunstein    [fullquote]

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Have we not already decided that health care is a right of citizenship and not a luxury only for those who can afford it? Do we need to re-argue that issue? If that is clear then the debate ought to focus on how to accomplish that goal. There are only two possible alternatives. One is to develop a single payer, tax-supported system like the developed nations of the world with the single exception of the United States have done. The alternative is to develop a market-based nearly universal system which is what the Affordable Care Act was designed to achieve. There are no other options. The attempt to kill the Affordable Care Act, which was developed by the Heritage Foundation as a conservative alternative to a National Health Service, is irrational. The political need is to fix it not kill it. The debate will be dishonest until that fact is grasped. The opponents of the Affordable Care Act offer no "conservative" alternative because the Affordable Care Act is the conservative alternative. There is no other. It is time for honesty in this debate!    By Bishop John Shelby Spong    [fullquote]

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As honest, fair and truly intellectual debate degrades before the eyes of the global media audience, the quality of American democracy degrades along with it.    By Dr. Cynthia Boaz    [fullquote]

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... I have come to see any American president as a person on a tightrope: on any issue, he can lean only so far to the left or right before the political laws of gravity begin to punish him. The genius of the Tea Party is that it didn't try to move the tightrope walker, it moved the tightrope itself, successfully pulling the national conversation and the entire political establishment far to the right." -- Van Jones    By Van Jones    [fullquote]

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You don't have to blow out my candle to make yours brighter.    By Unknown    [fullquote]

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You can't help growing older, but you can help growing old.    By George Burns    [fullquote]

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When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover.    By Michael Hyatt    [fullquote]

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Our most devious foe slumbers within.    By Butler Yates    [fullquote]

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Market fundamentalists hold that the public interest is best served when people are allowed to pursue their own interests. This is an appealing idea, but it is only half true. Markets are eminently suitable for the pursuit of private interests,but they are not designed to take care of the common interest.    By George    [fullquote]

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In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.    By Baba Dioum    [fullquote]

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Whatever has your attention has you.    By Willis Elliott    [fullquote]

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Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.    By Anonymous    [fullquote]