Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
NOAM CHOMSKYLanguage 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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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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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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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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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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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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