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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.


Avram Chomsky

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MICHAEL STRONG Man is the only animal species who dont believe eachother.
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GERMANY KENT All things are possible when we believe in God.
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DANIEL KAYEE was a conditional offer So we dont deal with that.
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FREDERICK BUECHNER I believe in full freedom for Christians of all denominations.
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When I succeed, I will again expl...
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CALVIN COOLIDGE If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem to be against us, we do not believe Him at all.
CHARLES H. SPURGEON People see what they want to see
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ARZELL I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now."
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Gat, h...
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NOAM CHOMSKY When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse,...
NOAM CHOMSKY Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. Th...
NOAM CHOMSKY As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the cred...
NOAM CHOMSKY In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti - France and the United States - combined t...
NOAM CHOMSKY The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resista...
NOAM CHOMSKY In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats ...
NOAM CHOMSKY My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to som...
NOAM CHOMSKY Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail t...
NOAM CHOMSKY Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international la...
NOAM CHOMSKY Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard...
NOAM CHOMSKY There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office...
NOAM CHOMSKY In Latin America, specialists and polling organisations have, for some time, observed that the exten...
NOAM CHOMSKY You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
NOAM CHOMSKY For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training ...
NOAM CHOMSKY It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other an...
NOAM CHOMSKY Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decl...
NOAM CHOMSKY Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter i...
NOAM CHOMSKY The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by retu...
NOAM CHOMSKY Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its...
NOAM CHOMSKY I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness whic...
NOAM CHOMSKY Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other p...
NOAM CHOMSKY Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
NOAM CHOMSKY I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages ...
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