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"The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history."
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"Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay."
"There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences."
"We work hard to believe that our actions really don't affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much."
"Only a fool lights a fire and tries to hide at the same time."
"No matter how strong you are, you don't just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death!"
"Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming."
"The only thing destroying us is ignorance."
"Let us draw from the crib the joy and deep peace that Jesus comes to bring to the world."
"Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes."
"If you do something, expect consequences."
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"If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong."
"Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice."
"If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health."
"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune."
"There is oppression that shouldn't exist. There is a struggle for freedom all the time. There are very serious dangers: the species may be heading toward extinction. I can't see how anybody can fail to have an interest in trying to help people become more engaged in thinking about these problems and doing something about them."
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum-even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
"Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society."
"Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry."
"The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media."
"To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public."
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