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There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines.
I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.
I had no expectations about Barack Obama and I'm not in the least disillusioned.
The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party.
Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It's a neutral instrument.
We should not want to permit providers, for example to have control over access.
The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.
Jean Kirkpatrick [is] the chief sadist-in-residence of the Reagan Administration.
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing?
Hamas is a political party and political parties don't recognize other countries.
Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.
We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.
You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.
Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.
The human digestive and visual systems did clearly evolve over a very long period.
Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control.
In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.
Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.
To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.
A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice.
Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don't take much for granted.
The only way we can put a permanent end to terrorism is to stop participating in it.
People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.
You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.
Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely than people across them. on C Span.
I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.
If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.
Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk.
Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.
. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.
The capacity to transfer production elsewhere is a weapon against the Western workers.
Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s.
The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.
Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.
If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.
How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.
I'm into eating as little as possible... I never cook. Never use the stove or anything.
Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.