In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
NOAM CHOMSKYPropaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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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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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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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.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass 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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