Noam Chomsky Quotes
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
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I love running and I will always run.
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Netflix, I love you.
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There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
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I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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...and then this amazing creature -to whom no one has ever said 'Shah!' or 'I only hope your children will do the same to you someday!'
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
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Of a number of variant hypotheses about the same facts, that one is true which shows why facts, which in the other hypotheses remain unrelated, are as they are, i.e., which demonstrates their orderly and rational mathematical connexion.
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We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
