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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Noam Chomsky

That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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Accurate Election Fact Importance Meaningful More Place Sense Some Term
Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Dress Nationalism Other Way
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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Basically Business Democrat Function One Party Republican
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
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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Create Generation Language Law Manner Principle Process Use
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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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Aggression Common Death Develop Frighten Genital People Sense
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
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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Coalesce Control Group Investor Mean Occasion Sentence State
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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Admire Any Country Dictator Media Obedience Uniformly
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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