Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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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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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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