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" The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind. "
William Greider
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" Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others. "
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" A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values? "
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" The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another. "
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" Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another. "
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" As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed. "
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" The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that. "
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" In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims. "
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