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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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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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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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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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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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