I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
NOAM CHOMSKYThey come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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