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"There's always merit to having a debate."
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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."
"I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension."
"If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?"
"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."
"Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources."
"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."
"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."
"The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though."
"One can always debate questions back and forth."
"I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues."
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"If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned."
"They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets."
"When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind."
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