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"The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral."
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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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"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."
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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 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."
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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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"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."
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"What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities."
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"If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions."
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"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and 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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"I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host."
Dance
"Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?"
God
"Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, 'I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.' Yeah, that's always the sign of a man in good health, isn't it?"
Health
"For the love of God, folks, don't try this at home."
Home
"People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine."
People
"Here's a little known fact - Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno."
Body
"Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel."
Experts
"Congratulations are in order for Woody Allen - he and Soon Yi have a brand new baby daughter. It's all part of Woody's plan to grow his own wives."
Daughter
"The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves."
Intelligence
"President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?"
Hell
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