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"The common dogma [of fundamentalists] is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity."	G Gaia
"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."	William Lloyd Garrison
"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."	Edward Gibbon
"It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction."	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."	Ernesto "Che" Guevara
"If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way."	Gurdjieff
"I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. 'That was fun,' I said. 'You bet it was,' said Nick. 'Let's climb higher.' 'No,' I said. 'I think we should be heading back now.' 'We have time,' Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"If you were a gladiator in olden days, I bet the inefficiency of how the gladiator fights were organized and scheduled would just drive you up a wall."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"A funny thing is if you're out hiking and your friend gets bit by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going for help, then go about ten feet and pretend YOU got bit by a snake. Then start an argument about who's going to get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"I bet when they weren't fighting, Vikings with horn helmets had to stick potatoes on the ends of the horns, so as to avoid eye pokings to fellow Vikings and lady Vikings."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change."	Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh
"War will cease when men refuse to fight."	F. Hansen
"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."	Edgar Watson Howe
"A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run."	Elbert Hubbard
"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."	David Hume
"I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched."	John K. Hutchens
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."	Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	F. Hansen	George Bernard Shaw
George Burton Adams	George Foreman	Golda Meir
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John K. Hutchens	John Paul Jones	Joseph Joubert
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Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marilyn Ferguson	Martin Luther
Michael Lews	Michel Leiris	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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Rachel Blanchard	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Rita Mae Brown
Roger Nash Baldwin	Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy	Samuel Butler
Sam Ewing	Sir Francis Bacon	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Alva Edison	Thomas Mincher
T. Lehrer	Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh	William Jefferson Clinton
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