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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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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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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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 elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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