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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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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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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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"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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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."
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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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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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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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"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."
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"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."
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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."
Argument
"Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men."
Man
"Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference."
Curiosity
"Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time."
Time
"The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress."
Progress
"When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us."
Behavior
"Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance."
Ignorance
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."
Computer
"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."
Education
"Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice."
Creativity
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