"A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good."

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"That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting."

Studs Terkel, American Journalist

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"Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument."

Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer

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"Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad."

Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer

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"Neither irony or sarcasm is argument."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Arguments are healthy. They clear the air."

John Deacon, British Musician

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"The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry."

Jim Fowler, American Scientist

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"When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners."

Richard Carlson, American Author

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"If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments."

Herbert Prochnow, American Banker

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"For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught."

Roger Bacon, English Philosopher

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"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm."

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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."

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"Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society."

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"Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing."

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"It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity."

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"Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners."

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"The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's."

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"The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny."

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