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"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
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"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."
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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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"You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson."
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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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"My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem."
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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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"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."
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"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak."
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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."
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"A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion."
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"What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!"
Life
"I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything."
Character
"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
Friendship
"We must take our friends as they are."
Friendship
"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
Argument
"A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
Conversation
"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."
Wit
"It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy."
Man
"If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good."
Power
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