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.
NOAM CHOMSKYBut 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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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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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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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