Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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 do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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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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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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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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