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The Highest Courage Is To Dare To Be Yourself In The Face Of Adversity. Choosing Right Over Wrong, Ethic Over Convenience, And Truth Over Popularity ... These Are Choices That Measure Your Life. Travel The Path Of Integrity Without Looking Back, For There Is Never A Wrong Time To Do The Right Thing.

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The Highest Courage Is

Michael Moore

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The Highest Courage Is To Dare To Be Yourself In The Face Of Adversity. Choosing Right Over Wrong, Ethic Over Convenience, And Truth Over Popularity ... These Are Choices That Measure Your Life. Travel The Path Of Integrity Without Looking Back, For There Is Never A Wrong Time To Do The Right Thing.

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Religious Fanatics

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Hours In The Day

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White People Scare The Crap Out Of Me. I Have Never Been Attacked By A Black Person, Never Been Evicted By A Black Person, Never Had My Security Deposit Ripped Off By A Black Landlord, Never Had A Black Landlord, Never Been Pulled Over By A Black Cop, Never Been Sold A Lemon By A Black Car Salesman, Never Seen A Black Car Salesman, Never Had A Black Person Deny Me A Bank Loan, Never Had A Black Person Bury My Movie, And I've Never Heard A Black Person Say, 'we're Going To Eliminate Ten Thousand Jobs Here - Have A Nice Day!'

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Guarantees That

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Guarantees That

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Somehow, I Don't Think Jesus Came To Earth To Ring The Bell At The New York Stock Exchange.

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Most Liberals I Know Were For Invading Afghanistan Right After 9/11.

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Army Specialist Bradley Manning Deserves A Medal, Not Prison.

Bradley Manning

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L.a. - Talk About A Cruel City: Patients Are Forcibly Removed From Hospitals.

Middle Class Jobs Prevent Crime And Violence.

I Want Americans To Realize That We Are The Owners Of This Country, And That One Person Can Make A Difference.

Making A Difference

I Assume Everything I'm Saying In An Email Or Saying On The Telephone Is Being Looked At.

I'm Very Blessed And Fortunate That People Want To Go See My Movies.

I Rallied Against Clinton When He Was In Office. I Didn't Vote For Him In '96. I Didn't Vote For Gore In 2000.

There Should Be No Private Health Insurance Companies Operating For Profit.

Private Health Insurance

I Don't 'support The Troops' Or Any Of Those Other Hollow And Hypocritical Platitudes Uttered By Republicans And Frightened Democrats. Here's What I Do Support: I Support Them Coming Home. I Support Them Being Treated Well.

Greed Has Been With Human Beings Forever. We Have A Number Of Things In Our Species That You Would Call 'the Dark Side,' And Greed Is One Of Them. If You Don't Put Certain Structures In Place Or Restrictions On Those Parts Of Our Being That Come From That Dark Place, Then It Gets Out Of Control.

These Bastards Who Run Our Country Are A Bunch Of Conniving, Thieving, Smug Pricks Who Need To Be Brought Down And Removed And Replaced With A Whole New System That We Control.

The American Media Wants To Pump You Full Of Fear.

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Openness, Transparency - These Are Among The Few Weapons The Citizenry Has To Protect Itself From The Powerful And The Corrupt... And That Is The Best Thing That Wikileaks Has Done.

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I'm A Millionaire, I'm A Multi-millionaire, I'm Filthy Rich. You Know Why I'm A Multi-millionaire? 'cause Multi-millions Like What I Do.

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I Want Us All To Face Our Fears And Stop Behaving Like Our Goal In Life Is To Merely Survive.

Clearly I Am A Person Who Suffers From A Lack Of Ego.

Back In The '80s And '90s, When Gm Was Consistently Posting Giant Profits, They Were Simultaneously Firing Tens Of Thousands Of Workers In My Hometown Of Flint And Across Michigan.

The No. 1 Cause Of Bankruptcies Is Medical Bills.

When You Come From The Working Class And You Do Well Enough Whereby You Can Provide A Little Bit Better For Your Family, Get A Decent Roof Over Their Head And Send Them To A Good School, That's Considered A Good Thing.

All Of Our Political Parties Are Bought And Paid For By Corporate America, Wall Street, And The Wealthy Interests. The Republican Party More So, But The Democrats Take Their Share Of The Loot, Too.

I Think That Capitalism In General Is Responsible, Not For The Worldwide Recession, But For A Lot Of Suffering, Both In The United States And Around The World.

We Live In The Time Where We Have Fictitious Election Results That Elects A Fictitious President. We Live In A Time Where We Have A Man Sending Us To War For Fictitious Reasons.

One Day There'll Be No Need For Me. I'm Actually Hoping To Put Myself Out Of Business.

'champagne' And 'breathmint' Are The First Two Words All Oscar Winners Hear.

If You're In A Diabetic Or Prediabetic State, It's Good To Have Medication To Go On For A Period Of Time. But Simply By Making The Changes - Get Your Sleep, 35 Grams Of Fiber And A Half-hour Walk - Your Cholesterol Will Come Down, Your Sugar Will Come Down, And Your Blood Pressure Will Come Down. Only The Minority Of People Can't Control It.

Today Just 400 Americans Have More Wealth Than Half Of All Americans Combined.

Every Fact In My Films Is True. And Yet How Often Do I Have To Read Over And Over Again About Supposed Falsehoods?

Back In The Late '90s, I Put Together A Humorous Newsmagazine Program Called 'the Awful Truth' For Bravo. We Helped One Guy Get An Organ Transplant Whose Insurance Company Had Refused To Pay. I Thought, If We Could Save A Guy's Life In A 10-minute Segment On Cable, What Could We Do If We Devoted A Whole Movie To A Whole Bunch Of People?

We Should All Spend Some Time Of Our Life Doing Service To Our Country. To Me, I Would Give Up A Couple Of Years.

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