John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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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 godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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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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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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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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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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