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" When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming. "
Noam Chomsky
Deceit
Coming
Politician
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" Remember, weapons of mass destruction don't mean missiles. "
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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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" 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. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist. "
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" Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. "
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" The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism. "
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" NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist? "
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" Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the 'war on terror.' In contrast, Washington's withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice. "
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" I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret. "
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" Government actually grew during the Reagan years. "
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" By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti. "
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Most
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" The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world. "
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" After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators. "
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" There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication. "
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" As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use. "
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Rules
Language
Information
" If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you. "
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Impress
You
Teacher
" Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg. "
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" The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has rather traditional nativist streaks to it. But what is much more important, I think, is the - is its outrage. "
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You
Think
" Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment. "
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Only
Ignoring
Environment
" Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today's political scene. "
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" Dissident intellectuals aren't all beautiful. "
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Intellectuals
Beautiful
" It could be - and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don't like it - that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track. "
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" Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known. "
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" Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush's policies. "
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Surprise
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" Obama, of course, outspent McCain. "
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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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Childhood
" The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans. "
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" In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti - France and the United States - combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region. "
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Return
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" It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination. "
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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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