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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.

Noam Chomsky

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Absolute Credential Literally Professional Teach Truth
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
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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Among Country Crime History Sot Start Unsealable
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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Aggressive Country Least Major Military Power Threat
Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Dress Nationalism Other Way
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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Advance All Ironic Leas Of One Pretty Protect Talk Try Us
Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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Ahead Block Come Effort Every Misery Overcome People Poverty Step Time
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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Challenge Education Environment Individual Opportunity Provide Rich
It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Avoid Been Far Miracle New Nuclear
The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Cold Country Figure Lead Professor Scholarship War
Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Environment Extremities Ignore Impact Lethal Market Transition
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Academic Among Discontent Economics Liberal Privilege Unnoticed
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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Arrogance Atheist Business Child Dry Example Heaven Hope Join Lecture New Some
That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Citizen Do Government Law Secret State Suppose
Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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Country Down Good Intimidate Look Unlike Way Wrong
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

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