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"The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information."
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"You can't argue with religious people, you can't change their mind even if you prove them wrong."
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"And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubborn and contentious that they refuse to give in even if they do understand."
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"Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results."
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"The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral."
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"Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled."
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"Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword."
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"I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension."
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"When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it."
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"If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?"
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"I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues."
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"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
Politics
"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."
Nature
"The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction."
Trust
"Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order."
Crisis
"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."
Family
"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."
Art
"The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family."
Family
"It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life."
Family
"The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left."
Politics
"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."
Events
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