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"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."
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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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"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."
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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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"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."
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"If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions."
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"When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do."
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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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"But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed."
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"Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments."
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"The passions of the young are vices in the old."
Old
"Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings."
Emotional
"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."
Friendship
"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."
Imagination
"Innocence is always unsuspicious."
Morality
"All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it."
Art
"Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader."
Emotional
"Justice is the truth in action."
Truth
"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth."
Love
"Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma."
Spiritual
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