In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
NOAM CHOMSKYI didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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