It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
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But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.
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The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.
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The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
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Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.
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It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'
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So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.
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There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
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What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.
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