01-28-2004, 11:46 AM
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quotation debate
down through recorded history human beings have said a lot of things worth repeating. some of my favorite things are quotations. but a philosophy teacher once said to me that the problem with conventional wisdom is that it's immensely contradictory. for example, using conventional wisdom we might say "look before you leap," but conventional wisdom also tells us that "he who hesitates is lost." so i was thinking it might be possible to have a debate using only quotations. somebody could offer up a quotation and someone else could find an equally convincing quotation to the contrary. thought it might make an intersting format for debate. so, that being the premise, i'll get things started.
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01-28-2004, 12:16 PM
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I love humanity but I hate people.
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01-28-2004, 01:00 PM
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I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
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01-28-2004, 01:31 PM
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Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.
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01-28-2004, 02:10 PM
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Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.
George Santayana |
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01-28-2004, 02:20 PM
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We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein |
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01-28-2004, 02:29 PM
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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01-28-2004, 02:36 PM
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein |
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01-28-2004, 03:25 PM
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Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
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01-28-2004, 04:08 PM
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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01-28-2004, 04:39 PM
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Talk is cheap, writing is expensive.
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01-28-2004, 05:49 PM
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Whose talk is of bullocks.
Ecclesiasticus
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01-28-2004, 05:51 PM
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My tongue within my lips I rein: for who talks much must talk in vain.
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01-28-2004, 06:10 PM
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"I have always thought that the best way to find out what is right and what is not right, what should be done and what should not be done, is not to give a sermon, but to talk and discuss, and out of discussion sometimes a little bit of truth comes out."
Nehru, Jawaharlal
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01-28-2004, 06:19 PM
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"Beauty is truth and truth is beauty. That is all ye know on earth, and that is all ye need to know."
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