No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
NOAM CHOMSKYDebt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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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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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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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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 process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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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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