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 CHOMSKYOur only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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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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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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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