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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

Noam Chomsky

Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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Apprehend Attack Country Easily Kill Marathon Peaceful Strike Target
Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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All Beautiful Dissident Intellectual One Liner
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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Academic Among Discontent Economics Liberal Privilege Unnoticed
The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Front Kill Other People Target Terrorist Weapon
The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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Country Last Love Minute States Support United Until
By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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By Large Most Oppose Politics Population
Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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Arab Campaign Concern Oppression Perception President Regime Street Suppose
Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Control Government People Use
But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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Accordance General Imaginable Intend Most Necesasarly Responsibility
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
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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Ahead Block Come Effort Every Misery Overcome People Poverty Step Time
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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Citizen Do Government Law Secret State Suppose
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Current Facility History Leisure Lie Minority Present Training Truth
If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Achieve Basis Build Something Want
In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Category Country Mechanic Professor Same Talk
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

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