The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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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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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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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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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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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 truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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