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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Noam Chomsky

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Age Ask Benefit Economic Health Insecure More Society Worker
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Against Argument I Meed Use Violence
Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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All Beautiful Dissident Intellectual One Liner
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
It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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Contempt Course Court Evidence Existence Follow Highest International Justice Obligation Receive
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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Alien Control Crime Drug Fear Immigrants Increase More Mother People
In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Category Country Mechanic Professor Same Talk
You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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Idea Important Listen Obedience Order Otherwise Place Spread
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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Country Defiant Exist Nato Once Soviet Union Well Western
In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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Academic Clerical Professor Routine Work World
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Conversation Doctrine Either Every New Repeat Same Say Something Time
It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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Conduct Contempt Evasion Matter Maze Normal Point Political Standard
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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Abounded Act Courage Crisis Happen Make Petrified Thoughtfulness
I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Appear Easily Fox More News
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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Association Assumption Classical Consequence Deeper Diversity Free Intervention Liberal Need State True
If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Achieve Basis Build Something Want

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