There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
NOAM CHOMSKYRomania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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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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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’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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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