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’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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