Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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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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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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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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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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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