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 CHOMSKYStability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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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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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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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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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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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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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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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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