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“Remember, if you don't sin, then Jesus died for nothing”
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“The trick is not to be isolated―if you're isolated, like Winston Smith in 1984, then sooner or later you're going to break, as he finally broke. That was the point of Orwell's story. In fact, the whole tradition of popular control has been exactly that: to keep people isolated, because if you can keep them isolated enough, you can get them to believe anything. But when people get together, all sorts of things are possible.”
― Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
― Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
“Take school, for instance. We say that the function of school is to teach valuable skills and knowledge. Yet students don't remember most of what they're taught, and most of what they do remember isn't very useful... Again, something doesn't add up.”
― The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
― The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
“Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others.
The same applies when you are stupid.”
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The same applies when you are stupid.”
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“… Science is constantly proved all the time. You see, if we take something like any fiction, any holy book… and destroyed it, in a thousand years’ time, that wouldn’t come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book, and every fact, and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they’d all be back, because all the same tests would [produce] the same result.”
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