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"Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that circulates informally."
"There is nothing more mysterious about the concept human nature than about the concept bee or chicken nature, at least for those who regard humans as creatures in the biological world."
"Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery."
"You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened in evolution. What has happened is that one species has developed, and the genetic structure of this species happens to involve a variety of intricate abstract principles of linguistic organization that, therefore, necessarily constrain every language, and, in fact, create the basis for learning language as a way of organizing experience rather than constituting something learned from experience."
"There was an international conference going on in Morocco that was a follow up for the Paris conference - to put some teeth in the Paris agreements. But on November 8, 2017 the conferences stopped. The question was, Will we survive? Not a word about it. Even more amazing, the world is looking to China to save them. The US is the wrecking machine that is destroying everything. The world is hoping that China will somehow come to the rescue."
"I don't think that any deal was needed: Iran was not a threat. Even if Iran were a threat, there was a very easy way to handle it - by establishing a Middle East Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, which is something that nearly everyone in the world wants."
"There are many cases around the world in which the presence of UN peace-keeping forces has had a somewhat beneficial effect."
"Radical activists can't ignore the fact that we live in this world, like it or not, and have to make difficult decisions about which paths are the best - or sometimes, the least harmful. There are no abstract formulas. Have to think through each case on its own."
"If current tendencies persist, the outcome will be disastrous before too long. Large parts of the world will become barely habitable affecting hundreds of millions of people, along with other disasters that we can barely contemplate."
"California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world."
"The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense."
"[Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular revolution, then constructing a "Red bureaucracy" that would be one of the worst tyrannies in history, while others would recognize that power lies elsewhere and would serve as its apologists, becoming mystifies, "disablers," and managers while demanding the right to function in "technocratic isolation," in World Bank lingo."
"The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts."
"Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly."
"I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world."
"Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song."
"I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding."
"This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating."
"I woke up only to find the rest of the world asleep."
"If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is a pretty powerful tool. And there's not many paintings out there, that make me want to stare at it for hours at a time, and wonder where I am!"
