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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.

Noam Chomsky

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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Bankruptcy Business Debt Design Individual Life Out Rest Reveal Student Trap
The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Election Industry Run Same Sell Television Toothpaste
That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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Accurate Election Fact Importance Meaningful More Place Sense Some Term
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Brand Censor Effect Experience Imagination Individual Suffer
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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Association Assumption Classical Consequence Deeper Diversity Free Intervention Liberal Need State True
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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Academic Clerical Professor Routine Work World
France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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Call Country Course Force Independent Initial Policy
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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Challenge Education Environment Individual Opportunity Provide Rich
A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Country Disaster Ulter War
Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Control Government People Use
The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Childcare Credit Make Sense Some Tax
Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Civil Disobedience Fun No
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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Current Facility History Leisure Lie Minority Present Training Truth
NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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Believe Constructed Country Defend Nato Reason Western
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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Another Fear Hate People Policy Publically Shape
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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Bring Build Deep Ever Exist History Now Once Point

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