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"You have your ideology and I have mine."
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"Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle."

"What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities."

"What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians."

"There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system."

"The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides."
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"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of the Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts."

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."

"When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful."

"Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite."

"Do not blame a person for drinking lest he is trying to forget something more serious than drinking."
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