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• The length of debate varies inversely with the complexity of the issue. -- Robert Knowle
• Any issue worth debating is worth avoiding altogether. -- Fahnstock's Third Law of Debate
• The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable.
  I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis....
• He laughs at every joke three times... once when it's told, once when it's explained, and once when he understands it.
• When everyone thinks alike, then everyone is stupid.
• The wheels of nature are not made to roll backward
  everything presses on toward Eternity; from the birth of Time an impetuous current has set in, which bears all the sons of men toward that interminable ocean....
• Violence accomplishes nothing." What a contemptible lie!
  Raw, naked violence has settled more issues throughout history than any other method ever employed....
• A true friend walks in when everyone else leave