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

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

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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."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."

E. T. Bell, Scottish Mathematician

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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."

Robert Benchley, American Comedian

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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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"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Argument, Custom, Manners, Morals

"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

Argument, Arguments, Being, Fact, Party

"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."

Edward W. Howe, American Novelist

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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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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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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."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty."

Health

"The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament."

Life

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

God

"Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow."

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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."

God

"The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive."

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"To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations."

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"The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world."

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