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I think we have every reason to hope for the best but expect and prepare for the worst.

Van Jones

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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.
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God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.
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I think the Muslim community is now being asked to bear an unfair burden to save a great faith from the fundamentalists and a great nation from bigotry.
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Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.
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I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.
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