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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Noam Chomsky

Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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Bring Build Deep Ever Exist History Now Once Point
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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Current Facility History Leisure Lie Minority Present Training Truth
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Admire Any Country Dictator Media Obedience Uniformly
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
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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Against Course International Offer Predatory Regie Some State Strike Weak
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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Hero May People Primary Stood Think
There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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Amount Count Election Fuss Irregularity Left Lot Machine Right Tamper Vote
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Cannot Consumption Control Distract Population
NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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Believe Constructed Country Defend Nato Reason Western
I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Cold Done Mean Weather Work
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
NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Bato Country Essentially Run
There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Gap Opinion Policy Public Tremendous
If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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Argue Like Say Someone
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Action Arise Choice Decision Human Loss Question Reason Science Soon
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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Commitment Different Federal High Inflation Official Policy Prevent Reserve

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