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“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
― Anonymous

“Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kéramos and Other Poems

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“Common sense is not so common.”
― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary