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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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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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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Bail Case Environment No One Out
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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The term ‘globalisation’ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
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Design Globalisation Interest Investor Own Power Right Specific Term Wealth
Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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