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"Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources."
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"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."
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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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"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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"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."
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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 courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'..."
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"The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral."
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"We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate."
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"Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs."
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"We live in an information and knowledge-based economy."
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"Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs."
Time
"In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died."
Education
"No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education."
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"We can play politics, or we can reduce crime."
Politics
"If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination."
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"Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to."
Opportunity
"The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime."
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"Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly."
Health
"In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country."
Education
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