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"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
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"Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October 11:Clever of him to have spotted that (his favorite put-down is the preface 'Turning to the facts...') and brave of him to have taken such a lonely position. As he rightly insists, our disagreements are not really political."
"What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities."
"Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results."
"The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information."
"I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate."
"I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously."
"There is zero debate about whether the world is getting warmer. That is a fact, a measured fact. There is some debate, although not much anymore, about what's causing the world to get warmer. And the consensus, by far is that it's us."
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"A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today."
"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
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