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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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population. – Noam Chomsky

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I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me. – 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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All of us need to grow continuously in our lives. – Les Brown

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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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In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. – Les Brown

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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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