On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
NOAM CHOMSKYNow that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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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 European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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 murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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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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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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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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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 you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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