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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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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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