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Noam Chomsky

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Amaze Long Mars Observe Probably Service
It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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Against Course International Offer Predatory Regie Some State Strike Weak
The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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Anymore Become Extreme Hard Overwhelmingly Party Political Republican Tradition
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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Agent Impose Institution Moral More People Powerful Standard State
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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Administration Cold Dean Favorite Historian Reagan Regard Scholarship War
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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Essential Existence Freedom Human Idea Phase Possible Survival Value
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
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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Attribute Conceive Experience Foreign Lot Policy Useful
On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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Everything Go Internet Public Think
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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Arrogance Atheist Business Child Dry Example Heaven Hope Join Lecture New Some
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
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Academic Among Discontent Economics Liberal Privilege Unnoticed
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
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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Ashamed Civility Intellectual Myself Power Tradition
It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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Advance All Ironic Leas Of One Pretty Protect Talk Try Us
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Accomplice Antic Gradually Hardly Most Nixon Reveal Surprise

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