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    Glen Duncan
    “Reader, I ate him.”
    ― Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf
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    Glen Duncan
    “I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.”
    ― Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf
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    Frank McCourt
    “He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
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    Frank McCourt
    “It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.”
    ― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
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    Eduardo Galeano
    “¿Qué decir de la gratitud que América Latina debe a la Coca-Cola, que cobra carísimas licencias industriales para proporcionarles una pasta que se disuelve en agua y se mezcla con azúcar y gas?”
    ― Eduardo Galeano
    tags: economy, latin-american, politics
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    Michel de Montaigne
    “I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: adversary, ardor, argument, changed-mind, dispute, force, open-mind, pleasure, pride, reason, victory, weakness
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    Bruce Lee
    “Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: argument
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    Stephen Jay Gould
    “The most important tactic 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 an embarrassing loss of face.”
    ― Stephen Jay Gould
    tags: argument, debate, opponent
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    Hannah Arendt
    “There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.”
    ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
    tags: argument, discussion, logic, propaganda, rhetoric
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    Criss Jami
    “The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: argument, arrogance, complexity, debate, ego, fallacy, honesty, idea, idolatry, intelligence, logic, logical-fallacy, pretentiousness, pride, profound, simplicity, staple, truth, vanity, wisdom
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    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.”
    ― Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
    tags: abuse, argument, defeat, falsehood, logic, slander
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “What's all this love of arguing? No one ever convinces anyone else.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
    tags: argument, convincing
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: argument, debates, subjectivity
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego; it sure is good for his intellect.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: argument, beliefs, challenge, debate, ego, intellect
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    Katharine Weber
    “Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”
    ― Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson
    tags: life, loss
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