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It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
Jim Hightower
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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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James Hightower
James Allen Hightower
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Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
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The original Greek word idiotes referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on their own life and were both ignorant of and uncaring about public concerns and the common good.
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The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.
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Even a little dog can piss on a big building.
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America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.
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The media isn't only asleep it doesn't want to know this news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength.
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The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
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Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.
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