You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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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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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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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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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.
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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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