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— Deborah Tannen"The argument culture urges us to approach the world-and the people in it-in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition over-weighted."
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Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?
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