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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

Noam Chomsky

They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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Accept Anger Come Elite Government Recognition Reject
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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Few Go Make Mirror Monster People Person Savage Say
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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Challenge Education Environment Individual Opportunity Provide Rich
The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Election Industry Run Same Sell Television Toothpaste
It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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Conduct Contempt Evasion Matter Maze Normal Point Political Standard
The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Council Far Gone International Law Observe Reagan Revolution Security States Under United Veto
There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Catastrophe Environment Knowledge Nuclear Problem Species Toward
Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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Arab Campaign Concern Oppression Perception President Regime Street Suppose
While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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Among Destruction Divine Most One Powell Rich Society Try
If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Favour Fundamental Good Moral People Policy Reason Reform Stability Whatever
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Aggression Common Death Develop Frighten Genital People Sense
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Among Control Democrat Ensure Industrial Nation System United
I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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Assistance Attack Being Child Decent Dog Feel Hesitation Human Rapid Responsibility
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Choose Comfort Illusion Live World
I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Appear Easily Fox More News
There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Gap Opinion Policy Public Tremendous

It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

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