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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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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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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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