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"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
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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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"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."
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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."
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"I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message."
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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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"There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument."
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"Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad."
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"Neither irony or sarcasm is argument."
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"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
Perspective

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
World

"I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it."
Discipline

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
Expression

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."
Change

"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."
War

"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."
Mistake

"One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
Wisdom

"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing-a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."
Mortality

"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."
Nothing
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