There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
NOAM CHOMSKYNo 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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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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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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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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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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