If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at …

Noam Chomsky
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If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it. ✨ Noam Chomsky (2013). Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky, p.138, The New Press
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