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Bill Moyers

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All my life I've prayed the Lord's Prayer, but I've never prayed, "Give me this day my daily bread." It is always, "Give us this day our daily bread." Bread and life are shared realities. They do not happen in isolation. Civilization is an unnatural act. We have to make it happen, you and I, together with all the other strangers.
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"Pass the Bread", baccalaureate address at Hamilton College, 20 May 2006, Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 385

 
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