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.
NOAM CHOMSKYHuman language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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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 leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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