"If you believe you are right, then you should believe that you can make the case that you're right. This requires you to deal with serious objections properly."

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Source : "The dangers of a closed mind" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2009.

Julian Baggini

#Believe Quotes #Serious Quotes #Should Quotes

“I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.”
“Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.”
“There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.”
“The best advice I've gotten in terms of that was someone who said, "People will surprise you if you let them."”

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“Nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that it is now time to do something else.”
“While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life”
“Government is best which governs least”
“I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.”

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