"The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other."

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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

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