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"When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion."
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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."
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"In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number."
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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."
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"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."
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"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."
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"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."
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"Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable."
Tolerance
"When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion."
Argument
"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."
Praise
"A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train."
Gender
"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same."
Gossip
"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."
Leisure
"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"
Christian
"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."
Man
"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure."
Peace
"In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime."
Reading
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