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"There's always merit to having a debate."
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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."

"What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities."

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

"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."

"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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"If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned."

"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."

"They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets."
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