Noam Chomsky Quotes

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

Noam Chomsky

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Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.

Jim Ryun

FutureTimeBestIntelligenceWar

I was sick and tired of reading other people's epigraphs. They all seemed to be in ancient Greek, middle French or, when they were translated, they never seemed to relate to the book at hand. Basically, they seemed to be there just to baffle you and to impress you with how smart the writer is.

Jim Crace

SmartTiredPeopleBookReadingYou

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.

Jewel

RelationshipWaterBestYouCareer

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow: In Flanders fields.

John McCrae

SleepGrowFieldsThoughShall

Germany's strength lies largely in the fact that the Federal Republic is a center of industry and that it's an export nation.

Angela Merkel

StrengthNationIndustryCenterLies

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

Steven Wright

FriendsYouBarbieWhyBuyHer

The Nobel Prize in Economics is an incredible recognition for the work that my students, colleagues and I have done over the years. We all worked hard, but we were also lucky that the financial applications were so important.

Robert F. Engle

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I know we're all addicted to our smartphones, and I'll say, if I forget my smartphone, I go home and get it. And so understanding how to integrate that technology into the driving experience, both the front seat and the passenger seat and the back seat, I think is very important.

Mary Barra

HomeTechnologyExperienceThink

We actually have a real community of people doing useful things.

Mitchell Baker

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The idea of equal rights was in the air.

Lucy Stone

EqualityEqualAirRightsIdea

When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.'

Julia Glass

GoodHeartMyselfSoulMindReading

In the beginning, when I signed with Miami, they said they were never gonna trade me, and then, after first year, boom, they traded me to Toronto.

Jose Reyes

BeginningMeMiamiYearSaidNever

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