There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
NOAM CHOMSKYStability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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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 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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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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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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