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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.
Jim Hightower
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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
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When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.
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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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It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.
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