Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
NOAM CHOMSKYA 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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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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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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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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