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" Pakistan is not a unified country. "
Noam Chomsky
Pakistan
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" John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale. "
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" If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions. "
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" In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends. "
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" As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. "
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" Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege. "
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" The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour. "
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" Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population. "
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" The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! "
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" Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it. "
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" In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society. "
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" The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well. "
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" WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for - presidential medal of honor. "
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" Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony. "
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" U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness. "
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" In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962. "
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" 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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" Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way. "
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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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" Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. "
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" Israel is a pretty crazy state. "
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" I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system. "
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" The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world. "
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" There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism. "
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" In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States. "
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" September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That's all to the good. "
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