The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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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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 European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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