In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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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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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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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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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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