The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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