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"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."
"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."
"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 every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate."
"What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities."
"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate."
"The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though."
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"There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion."
"Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared."
"Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal."
"And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger."
"I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions."
"We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace."
"That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well."
"Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected."
"I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot."
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