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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.

Noam Chomsky

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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Bankruptcy Business Debt Design Individual Life Out Rest Reveal Student Trap
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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Arab Campaign Concern Oppression Perception President Regime Street Suppose
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Among Control Democrat Ensure Industrial Nation System United
But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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Attention Barbarian Been Country Need Pay See Thousand Three Year
That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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Accurate Election Fact Importance Meaningful More Place Sense Some Term
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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Aggressive Country Least Major Military Power Threat
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Education Internet Very Meaningful Participation Positive Society
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Choose Comfort Illusion Live World
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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Development Easier Internet Library Much Undoubtfully
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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Create Generation Language Law Manner Principle Process Use
It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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Argue Coul Like Neuroscientist Plausibly Rather View
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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Believe Desire Expression Freedom People
It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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Contempt Course Court Evidence Existence Follow Highest International Justice Obligation Receive
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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Idea Important Listen Obedience Order Otherwise Place Spread
The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Anymore Become Extreme Hard Overwhelmingly Party Political Republican Tradition
If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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Alone Asia Country Follow India Kick led Live Million People Save Ten Trait
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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Bring Build Deep Ever Exist History Now Once Point
Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Deal Exactly Nicaragua Problem Right Terrorism Way
The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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Apocalyse Contemplate Equanimity Estimate High Person Probability Realistic Same Surely Too
History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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History Impose Interest Liberalisation Loss More Often Powerful Show Sovereignty
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Against Argument I Meed Use Violence
If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Ago Dead Filed Teach Today Year
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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Administration Cold Dean Favorite Historian Reagan Regard Scholarship War
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Colorless Furiously Green Idea Sleep
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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Academic Among Discontent Economics Liberal Privilege Unnoticed
In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Basically Business Democrat Function One Party Republican
It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Dangerous Give People Privacy Will

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