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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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Fear
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A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks whats best for all. – Cornel West

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Education
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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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My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the worlds worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is. – Anthony Horowitz

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The establishment wonders why we cant get more of the black vote. Its because its not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people dont think alike. Most black people just vote alike. – J. C. Watts

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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship. – Herbert Spencer

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My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together. – Trevor Phillips

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt. – Italian Proverb

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Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it. – Stephen Baker

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I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal. – Jim Carrey

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Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves. – Paul Tournier

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