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"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."
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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 the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort."
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"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."
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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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"We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself."
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"To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind."
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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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"I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect."
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"Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female."
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"What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim."
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"Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere."
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"A story is told as much by silence as by speech."
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"Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body."
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"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."
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"I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves."
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