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"I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field."
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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."
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"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."
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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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"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 take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."
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"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side."
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"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."
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"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."
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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
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"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
Anthropology
"I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style."
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"I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field."
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"I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now."
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"I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means."
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"My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things."
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"Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him."
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