"I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not."

-- Flora Lewis

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“If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.”
“The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.”
“The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.”
“Pink Champagne is about having fun and letting go, and living your life to the fullest!”
“The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.”

Source : "Bill Moyer’s Speech – Nat’l Conf. for Media Reform". dailygrail.com. May 19, 2005.
“Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run. And what it did to Northern forests can hardly be described, considering that it iced the branches of the sycamores on Chrystie Street and swept them back and forth until they rang like ranks of bells.”
“It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.”

Source : "Larry King Weekend", www.cnn.com. June 24, 2001.
“Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.”

Source : Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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