Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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 money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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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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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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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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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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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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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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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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