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"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate."
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"Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword."

"I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension."

"I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues."

"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."

"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."

"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."

"The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though."

"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."

"After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid."
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"Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table."

"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."

"The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy."

"There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late."

"The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour."

"This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us."
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