Noam ChomskyEither you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
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The truth is often hard to hear, and when you do hear it, it may not make sense. The person who says it is not like the person who says it is. That’s why they say such things. It’s not that they don’t know the truth; they only think they know.
Sometimes, when we’re in college, we feel like we can be the best at everything. We feel like we must agree with everything everybody says, and we don’t realize that sometimes people disagree with us and say things that we don’t agree with.
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