"As a research tool, the internet is invaluable."
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"Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against."
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"Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous."
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"Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs."
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"As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less."
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"If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you."
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"How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me."
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"I don't want followers."
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"When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has."
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"Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic."
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"Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything."
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"If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are."
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"It’s not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures - it’s inevitable. But unless the spirit of the last year, here and elsewhere in the country and around the globe, unless that continues to grow and becomes a major force in the social and political world, the chances for a decent future are not very high."
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"The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined."
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"The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It’s work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns."
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"These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers."
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"My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school."
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"People tend to rally around power."
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"Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (as I do) that we learn much more of human interest about how people think and feel and act by reading novels or studying history than from all of naturalistic psychology, and perhaps always will; similarly, the arts may offer appreciation of the heavens to which astrophysics cannot aspire."
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"The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values."
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