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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 apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."
"No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security."
"When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it."
"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."
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"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."
"It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life."
"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."
"Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values."
"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."
"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction."
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