Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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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.
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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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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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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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 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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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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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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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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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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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 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 United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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