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"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."
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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 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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"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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"A day without an argument is like an egg without salt."
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"I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin."
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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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"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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"Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments."
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"To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus."
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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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"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."
Importance
"A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death."
Death
"Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted."
Soul
"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony."
People
"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous."
Feelings
"After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year."
Time
"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."
Appearance
"You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it."
Family
"There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them."
Humor
"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."
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