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- We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it.…
- As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these…
- Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools…
- The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
- A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don't talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down the street and…
- Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing…
- The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for…
- The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business…
- How it is we have so much information, but know so little?
- The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard…
- When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game?…
- I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the same secret society…
- I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their…
- 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.
- Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response,…
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