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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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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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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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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