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“A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery.”
Source : Interview with Gerald Early, www.motherjones.com. September/October, 1996. 
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“Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of the obvious, which is that people learn by doing what people want to do.”
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“Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.”
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“You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.”
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“I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.”
Source : "The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indian". Book by Ralph K. Andrist (p. 258), 2001.
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“I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life.”
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“No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments.”
Source : David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.72
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“I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.”
