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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Noam Chomsky

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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Challenge Education Environment Individual Opportunity Provide Rich
There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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Amount Count Election Fuss Irregularity Left Lot Machine Right Tamper Vote
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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Action Arise Choice Decision Human Loss Question Reason Science Soon
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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Age Ask Benefit Economic Health Insecure More Society Worker
If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Ago Dead Filed Teach Today Year
The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Big Extremist Gave Invasion Particular Shot
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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Among Control Democrat Ensure Industrial Nation System United
If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Aspiration Associate Children Decline Hope Hour Income Kind People Wek Work
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Country Democracy Describe First Model People Political Scientist War World
The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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Commitment Different Federal High Inflation Official Policy Prevent Reserve
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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Essential Existence Freedom Human Idea Phase Possible Survival Value
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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Accord Analyze Cause Expose Government Hidden Intension Itelluction Motive Often Position
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Bludgeon Democracy Propaganda State Totalitarian
It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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Development Easier Internet Library Much Undoubtfully
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Civilian Innocent Kill Terrorism Wanton
When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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Between Corporation Distinguish Individual Institution Look Owner Slave

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