No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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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.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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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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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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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 U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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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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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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