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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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"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 apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."
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"To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive."
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"There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system."
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"Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it."
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"We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate."
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"There's always merit to having a debate."
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"The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though."
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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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"The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse."
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"It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force."
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"We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary."
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