Noam Chomsky Quotes
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
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To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.
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All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible.
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When followed correctly, the Dukan Diet is both a safe and effective method of weight loss.
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Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.
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Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act. It should and could have been done earlier, had not the Clinton White House, which understood the need, not wasted the opportunity through timidity and bluster.
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...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call good teaching is a teacher´s ability to obtain affective objectives by challenging the student's fixed beliefs. ...a large part of what we call teaching is that the teacher should be able to use education to reorganize a child's thoughts, attitudes, and feelings.
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'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.
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I was very surprised when I first started spending time in America. The culture shock was something I wasn't prepared for. I had a lot of work to do to try to begin to understand this enormous and complex country that I thought would be an easy process.
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The Bookshop has a thousand books,
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Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
