Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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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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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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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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