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• Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,… — Alan Lightman
• People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have… — Steven Pinker
• The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith… — Douglas Adams
• But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also… — Carl Sagan
• If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon… — Bertrand Russell
• One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the… — Jerry Saltz
• Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers… — Douglas Adams

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