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"That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting."
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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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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."
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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 one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."
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"In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort."
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"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."
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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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"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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"To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind."
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"I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now."
Time
"I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be."
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"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."
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"That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting."
Argument
"With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven."
People
"I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic."
Hope
"Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace."
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"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt."
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"I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him."
Love
"All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?"
Time
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