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Noam Chomsky

The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Cold Country Figure Lead Professor Scholarship War
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Education Internet Very Meaningful Participation Positive Society
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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Academic Clerical Professor Routine Work World
The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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Apocalyse Contemplate Equanimity Estimate High Person Probability Realistic Same Surely Too
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
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
The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Congo Develop Development Horror Involve Murder Story Year
Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Above Change Come Gift Progress Really Struggle
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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Even Hardly Idea Impose International Introduce Joke Principle
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Citizen Enemy Government Man Own Protect Regard Themselves
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Card Credit Debt Enormous Especial Large Student Trap
Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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Court Foundation Known Liberty Most Perhaps Strike Supreme Tradition
You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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Idea Important Listen Obedience Order Otherwise Place Spread
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
Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Civil Disobedience Fun No
What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Abounded Act Courage Crisis Happen Make Petrified Thoughtfulness
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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Association Assumption Classical Consequence Deeper Diversity Free Intervention Liberal Need State True
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
Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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Country Down Good Intimidate Look Unlike Way Wrong
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Admire Any Country Dictator Media Obedience Uniformly
I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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Attribute Conceive Experience Foreign Lot Policy Useful
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Colorless Furiously Green Idea Sleep
I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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Cockroach Decide Explain Human Psychoanalysis Something Think
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
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Against Argument I Meed Use Violence
It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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Argue Coul Like Neuroscientist Plausibly Rather View
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

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