France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
NOAM CHOMSKYEducation 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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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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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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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