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People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or advancing their elite positions, thereby lending tacit support to power structures. Or they might not be.
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky
Age: 95
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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