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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"The United States is a special case, and for me, very interesting. It's studied carefully and we know a lot about it. One of the most striking features of the elections is the class-based character of the vote. Now, class is not discussed or even measured in the United States. In fact, the word is almost obscene, except for the term "middle class." And you can't get exact class data; the census doesn't even give class data. But you can sort of see the significance of it just from income figures."

Giving Character Interesting
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Wikileaks is a democratizing force. Its giving individuals access to decisions and thinking by their representatives and in a democracy that ought to be reflexive."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"I'll have 15 letters today from mostly young kids who don't like what's going on and want to do something about it, and [they ask me] if I can give them some advice as to what they should do, or can I tell them what to read or something."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Capitalism is based on the principle that everything has to be privately owned; it can't be held in common. There is even a dogma, which is today called, the "tragedy of the commons" which holds that if things are held in common they are going to be destroyed. If they're privatized, like you give them to Bechtel or Monsanto or ExxonMobil, then they'll be preserved because that's the capitalist's religion."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"CEOs pretty much pick the boards that give them salaries and bonuses. That's one of the reasons why the CEO-to-payment [ratio] has so sharply escalated in this country in contrast to Europe. (They're similar societies and it's bad enough there, but here we're in the stratosphere. ] There's no particular reason for it."

Giving Country Europe
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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"In fact, for the majority of the population, wages and incomes have stagnated and conditions have gotten worse. So they are asking, "what did I do wrong?" And the answer that the talk show host is giving them is convincing, in it's internal logic. It's saying, "what's wrong is the rich liberals own everything, run everything, they don't care about you; therefore, distrust them" and so on."

Giving Running Majority
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Mario Video Game Character
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"How can you allow the trading companies to locate computers closer to exchanges and flash millions of bids to give an unfair advantage? Even professionals are losing faith in some aspects of the system."

Giving Losing Unfair Advantage
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Leona Lewis Singer-songwriter
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"The most important thing to me is to give something back to my parents, because they've done so much for me throughout my life."

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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
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"I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are."

Giving Friendship Meals
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

Years Giving Truth
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,--I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love, which I have found. O, how I think of you! You are purely good, --you are infinitely good. I can trust you forever. I did not think that humanity was so rich. Give me an opportunity to live."

Thinking Giving Opportunity
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