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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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There are only two ways to have a middle class in your country: either you have highly skilled manufacturing jobs, or you have a highly skilled, well trained, knowledge-based workforce. In other words, college.
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We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.
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If you think love is weak, that's a personal problem because real love is the strongest thing in the universe.
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