The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
NOAM CHOMSKYLanguage 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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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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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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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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