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Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the

Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street. – Cornel West

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My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, hes always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. – Cornel West

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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. – Cornel West

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power
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Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, thats being pushed to the margins, and you can see it. – Cornel West

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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. – H. L. Mencken

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I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I dont think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy. – Dyan Cannon

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I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent. – Darrell Hammond

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Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody. – Trent Reznor

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Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. Thats what natural history programmes should be for. – David Attenborough

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I dont understand how somebody wouldnt have a sense of humor about themselves. – John Malkovich

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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. – William Blake

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