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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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"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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"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right."
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"If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter."
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"I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all."
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"Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument."
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"Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them."
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"The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities."
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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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"Harry and I are misadventurous misadventurers that like to partake in misadventure."
Adventure
"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
Experience
"He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones."
Compassion
"I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known."
Philosophy
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
Experience
"Manufactured spirit is much more reliable than organic spirit."
Spirit
"If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might."
Motivation
"Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone."
Trust
"Through her eyes the day was new and anything was possible."
Perspective
"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."
Ambition
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