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"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
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"Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot."
"The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind."
"When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do."
"Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources."
"It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle."
"What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities."
"What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians."
"There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system."
"The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides."
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"The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories."
"Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction."
"Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend."
"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
"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."
"The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life."
"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."
"Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage."
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