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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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"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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"In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number."
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"Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue."
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"A day without an argument is like an egg without salt."
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"I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin."
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"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."
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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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"Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments."
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"To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus."
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"We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself."
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"I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves."
Time
"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
Anthropology
"The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."
Beauty
"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
Anthropology
"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere."
Books
"I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical."
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"We're getting closer to our nature."
Nature
"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
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"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
Science
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