As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
NOAM CHOMSKY
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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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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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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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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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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