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"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face."
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"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."
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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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"You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson."
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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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"My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem."
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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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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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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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"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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"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak."
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"Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference."
Curiosity
"Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?"
Life
"Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught."
Nothing
"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face."
Argument
"Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one."
Knowledge
"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better."
Change
"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."
Society
"Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men."
Man
"Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?""
Life
"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"
Power
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