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I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate. – Jesse Jackson

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It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as I Have a Dream speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment. – Jesse Jackson

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In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we dont have a plan for reconstruction at home. – Jesse Jackson

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. – Albert Camus

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Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and from impulses that make us their puppets, from the vagaries of the mind, and the hard service of the flesh. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. – Daniel Barenboim

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination. – Barry Cornwall

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I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser. – Richard Shelby

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If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. – David Rockefeller

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