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"A day without an argument is like an egg without salt."
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"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."
"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."
"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."
"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."
"We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well."
"At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat."
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"Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us."
"It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague."
"The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick."
"In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of."
"In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world."
"That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world."
"A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters."
"Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome."
"I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with."
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