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State of Fear

by Michael Crichton

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“Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?”
― Noel Coward

tags: tea

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“No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.”
― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

tags: embedded-journalism, journalism, propaganda, war

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“Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.”
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

tags: judge, judgement, judging, opinions

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“Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: absolutes, beliefs, beware, brainwashed, conviction, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, open-mindedness, opinions, permission, stand-up, truth

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“State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day.”
― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda

tags: propaganda

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