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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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"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."
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"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."
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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."
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"Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand."
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"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."
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"A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow."
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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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"Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue."
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"Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument."
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
Effort
"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."
Imagination
"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."
Dream
"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."
Argument
"The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism."
Nature
"If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards."
Cards
"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."
Man
"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
Experience
"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
Nature
"There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself."
Talent
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