The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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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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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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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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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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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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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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