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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

Noam Chomsky

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Applied Country Hang However Law Nuremberg President
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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Administration Cold Dean Favorite Historian Reagan Regard Scholarship War
It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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Advance All Ironic Leas Of One Pretty Protect Talk Try Us
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
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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Accord Analyze Cause Expose Government Hidden Intension Itelluction Motive Often Position
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Academic Among Discontent Economics Liberal Privilege Unnoticed
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
It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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Contempt Course Court Evidence Existence Follow Highest International Justice Obligation Receive
The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Anymore Become Extreme Hard Overwhelmingly Party Political Republican Tradition
NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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Believe Constructed Country Defend Nato Reason Western
Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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Country Down Good Intimidate Look Unlike Way Wrong
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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Achievement Advertisement Amount Come Dynamic Entrepreneur Initiative Profit Sector Socialize Cause State Tremendous Want
It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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Argue Coul Like Neuroscientist Plausibly Rather View
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
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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Academic Clerical Professor Routine Work World
Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment Idea Inheritor Liberal Liberalization Properly Regard Socialism

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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

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