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

Argument, Media, Public, Talk

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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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"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."

Colin Powell, American Statesman

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"A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow."

John Dryden, English Poet

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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."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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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."

Charles Simmons, American Author

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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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"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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"A day without an argument is like an egg without salt."

Angela Carter, English Novelist

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"Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument."

Robert South, English Clergyman

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"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."

Janet Frame, New Zealander Novelist

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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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"Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign."

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"To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context."

Communication

"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."

Health

"In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention."

Life

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

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

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"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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