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We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.

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Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
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For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.
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If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.
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This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.
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Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen the machines that are now ready to put it into operation.
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Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.
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The clinical definition of fascism is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.
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Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).
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The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.
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Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.
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The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.
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End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.
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