#is

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#achievements #call #claim #experiments #failures

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#choose #dictatorship #exist #fascist #i

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#civilians #innocent #innocent civilians #killing #terrorism

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. ↗

— John Updike

#currency #elder #i #i am #i see

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#barriers #coercion #given #history #human

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#arise #choice #decision #human #loss

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. ↗

— John Updike

#artists #behalf #content #distinguishes #entertainers

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#another #been #came #countries #european

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#every #government #i #into #israel

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#been #brutal #consequences #exist #formation