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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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"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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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."
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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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"In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort."
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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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"We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself."
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"To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind."
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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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"Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, "Who do you think you are?""
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"Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact."
Architecture
"What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others."
Press
"Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes."
Life
"Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end."
Politics
"A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on."
Being
"They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world."
People
"I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street."
Press
"Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time."
Money
"I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks."
Marriage
"It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation."
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