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![“CEOs pretty much pick the boards that give them salaries and bonuses. That's one of the reasons why the CEO-to-payment [ratio] has so sharply escalated in this country in contrast to Europe. (They're similar societies and it's bad enough there, but here we're in the stratosphere. ] There's no…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e5a/noam-chomsky-42_boards_ceos-pretty-much-pick-the-boards-that-gi_2936811.jpg)
![“Kids need to know more than just about unicorns and zombies and vampires. The rhetoric that's coming out is anti-black, anti-Mexico, anti-diversity. [Adults] definitely need to put it in context. I've talked to people who are literally struggling to sleep because they're anxious. Children pick up…” quote by Eric Walters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/191/eric-walters-33060_adults_kids-need-to-know-more-than-just-about-u_260950.jpg)
![“It's both strategic, to get people's minds off other things, and to pick an internal enemy. It's part of [Donald Trump's] psychodynamics to always care about his press coverage intensely. He's more interested in that than anything else.” quote by Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/80d/mark-shields-1572_care_it-s-both-strategic-to-get-people-s-mind_524998.jpg)
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