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"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right."
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"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."
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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."
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"I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message."
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"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."
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"There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument."
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"Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad."
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"Neither irony or sarcasm is argument."
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"I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy."
Democracy
"A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable."
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"The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion."
Politics
"In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away."
Politics
"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right."
Argument
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