Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
NOAM CHOMSKYI don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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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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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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