American - Activist | December 7, 1928 -
In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.
Noam Chomsky
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In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.
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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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You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.
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Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
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As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.
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Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
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Israel is a pretty crazy state.
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I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can't explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.
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Dissident intellectuals aren't all beautiful.
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