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"Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October 11:Clever of him to have spotted that (his favorite put-down is the preface 'Turning to the facts...') and brave of him to have taken such a lonely position. As he rightly insists, our disagreements are not really political."
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"... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'..."
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"I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side."
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"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."
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"To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive."
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"There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system."
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"Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it."
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"We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate."
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"There's always merit to having a debate."
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"The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though."
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"Dreams become regrets when left in the mind, never planted in the soil of action."
Motivation

"It is pointless to complain about the problems of the world as long as we continue contributing to them."
Responsibility

"Life can be tough at times, but each time you fall, is another lesson to learn from."
Resilience

"It doesn't matter what you did, all what matters is what you want to do, when, where and how you are going to do it."
Future

"Search yourself with other persons and you will find the right you."
Self

"Living life without a goal is like sailing the sea without a compass."
Purpose

"Without judgments life loses its hierarchical quality of being a choice between preferences and by losing that, it loses it's savor."
Perspective

"Never become impatient with the process, bored with the pace, frustrated at the meager results, just keep trying."
Motivation

"Life is too short for it to be used to accumulate a harem of enemies."
Life

"Life is not the obstacle to human happiness. Life simply provides the opportunities to learn Life's lessons and develop in ways, and acquire the necessary characteristics that can only be acquired through those opportunities Life provides."
Life
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