Editing Noam Chomsky (section)

==Notes==
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* {{harvnb|Macintyre|2010}}
* {{harvnb|Burris|2013}}: "Noam Chomsky has built his entire reputation as a political dissident on his command of the facts."
* {{harvnb|McNeill|2014}}: "[Chomsky is] often dubbed one of the world's most important intellectuals and its leading public dissident{{nbsp}}..."
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* {{harvnb|Fox|1998}}: "Mr. Chomsky&nbsp;... is the father of modern linguistics and remains the field's most influential practitioner."
* {{harvnb|Tymoczko|Henle|2004|p=101}}: "As the founder of modern linguistics, Noam Chomsky, observed, each of the following sequences of words is nonsense&nbsp;..."
* {{harvnb|Tanenhaus|2016}}: "At 87, Noam Chomsky, the founder of modern linguistics, remains a vital presence in American intellectual life."
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{{efn|name=important|
* {{harvnb|McNeill|2014}}: "[Chomsky is] often dubbed one of the world's most important intellectuals{{nbsp}}..."
* {{harvnb|Campbell|2005}}: "Noam Chomsky, the linguistics professor who has become one of the most outspoken critics of US foreign policy, has won a poll that names him as the world's top public intellectual."
* {{harvnb|Robinson|1979}}: "Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive today."
* {{harvnb|Flint|1995}}: "The man once called the most important intellectual alive keeps his office in{{nbsp}}... the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
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{{efn|name="most cited"|
* {{harvnb|Knight|2016|p=2}}: "In 1992, the Arts and Humanities Citation Index ranked him as the most cited person alive (the Index's top ten being Marx, Lenin, Shakespeare, Aristotle, the Bible, Plato, Freud, Chomsky, Hegel and Cicero)."
* {{harvnb|Babe|2015|p=xvii}}: "[Chomsky] was the most cited living scholar between 1980 and 1992 (according to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index)."
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