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"Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue."
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"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."
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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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"You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson."
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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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"My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem."
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"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."
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"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."
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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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"In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number."
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"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."
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"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful."
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"Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil."
Heart
"Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue."
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"Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage."
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"Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next."
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"It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'."
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"For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame."
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"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."
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"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power."
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"True greatness consists in being great in little things."
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