Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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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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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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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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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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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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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