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Quote by Noam Chomsky
The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern

The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. – Noam Chomsky

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I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. – Noam Chomsky

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Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers songs and so forth. – Noam Chomsky

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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. – Noam Chomsky

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The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations. – Andre Breton

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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. – Johann von Goethe

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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. – William Hazlitt

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The public seldom forgive twice. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

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I think thats what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. – Diane Wakoski

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I have terrible handwriting. I now say its a learning disability… but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. – Andrew Greeley

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