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 CHOMSKYSome may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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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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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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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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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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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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