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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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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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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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