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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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"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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"I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months."
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"Observe which side resorts to the most vociferous name-calling and you are likely to have identified the side with the weaker argument and they know it."
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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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"One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact."
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"The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities."
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"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."
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"The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification."
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"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."
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"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
Being
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."
Culture
"What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery."
Values
"A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself."
Self
"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."
Society
"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
Society
"You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his."
Loss
"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
Love
"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."
Right
"You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing."
Joy
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