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.
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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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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There’s very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction – that is, the hatred and the anger.
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