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"I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension."
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"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."
"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."
"The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind."
"What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities."
"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate."
"The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though."
"Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword."
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"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."
"The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels."
"Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others."
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