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"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
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"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."
"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."
"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."
"But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed."
"There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four."
"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."
"We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate."
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"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."
"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction."
"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."
"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."
"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 advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
"Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure."
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