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It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.
Jim Hightower
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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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Denison
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James Hightower
James Allen Hightower
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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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You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
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