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"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak."
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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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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."
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"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking 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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"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 My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."
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"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."
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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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"What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name."
Life
"The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children."
Love
"There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination."
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"He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil."
Life
"My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image."
Thought
"The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men."
Man
"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity."
Desire
"To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore."
Memory
"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."
Man
"The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself."
Love
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