While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf 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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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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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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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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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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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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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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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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