There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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 there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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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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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.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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