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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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"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."
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"I like to see life with its teeth out."
Life
"They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood."
Time
"Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance."
Attention
"Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day."
Electricity
"From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth."
Darkness
"It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep."
Travel
"Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood."
Time
"Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination."
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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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"I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months."
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"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."
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"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
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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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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."
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"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."
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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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