There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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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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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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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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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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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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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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