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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
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"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."

"I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator."

"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."

"I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers."

"I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag."
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