Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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