Quote by Noam Chomsky
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling di

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. – Noam Chomsky

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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. – Noam Chomsky

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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email! – Noam Chomsky

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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. – Noam Chomsky

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Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
Think each in each, immediately wise;
Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
What this tumultuous body now denies;
And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
And see, no longer blinded by our eyes. – Rupert Brooke

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The perfecting of ones self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. – Confucius

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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Enough shovels of earth — a mountain. Enough pails of water — a river. – Chinese Proverb

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It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. – A.A. Hodge

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