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"Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues."
Attention
"My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation."
Work
"But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression."
People
"Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left."
Argument
"Just because there is a problem doesn't mean that we have to solve it, if the cure is going to be more expensive than the original ailment."
Cure
"I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view."
Society
"Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?"
Direction
"The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly."
Fact
"We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports."
Community
"It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough."
Effect
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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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"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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"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."
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"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
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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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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."
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"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."
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"We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself."
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