"Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose."

Argument, Being, Praise

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"Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose."

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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us."

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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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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."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat."

William Henry Moody, American Politician

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