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Coal Quote by Ro Khanna

“This idea you're going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous.” quote by Ro Khanna — Download Open image

“This idea you're going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous.”

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