But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
NOAM CHOMSKYNow that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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