The increasingly rapid pace of life today causes more problems than it solves.
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Young people should be encouraged to pursue long-term, realistic goals rather than seek immediate fame and recognition.
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Claim: The best test of an argument is its ability to convince someone with an opposing viewpoint.
Reason: Only by being forced to defend an idea against the doubts and contrasting views of others does one really discover the value of that idea.
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No field of study can advance significantly unless it incorporates knowledge and experience from outside that field.
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Claim: Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.
Reason: We are not able to make connections between current events and past events until we have some distance from both.
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Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.
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Claim: The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists.
Reason: The surest indicator of a great nation is actually the welfare of all its people.
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Claim: In any field-business, politics, education, government-those in power should step down after five years.
Reason: The surest path to success for any enterprise is revitalization through new leadership.
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All parents should be required to volunteer time to their children's schools.
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Although innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students, these technologies all too often distract from real learning.
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The best way to solve environmental problems caused by consumer-generated waste is for towns and cities to impose strict limits on the amount of trash they will accept from each household.
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The surest indicator of a great nation is represented not by the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but by the general welfare of its people.
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Claim: It is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero.
Reason: The reputation of anyone who is subjected to media scrutiny will eventually be diminished.
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Some people claim that you can tell whether a nation is great by looking at the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists. Others argue that the surest indicator of a great nation is, in fact, the general welfare of all its people.
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Some people believe that scientific discoveries have given us a much better understanding of the world around us. Others believe that science has revealed to us that the world is infinitely more complex than we ever realized.
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In most professions and academic fields, imagination is more important than knowledge.
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Claim: Many problems of modern society cannot be solved by laws and the legal system.
Reason: Laws cannot change what is in people's hearts or minds.
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Learning is primarily a matter of personal discipline; students cannot be motivated by school or college alone.
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Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.
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If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain it are justifiable.
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Formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free.
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It is more harmful to compromise one's own beliefs than to adhere to them.
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The effectiveness of a country's leaders is best measured by examining the well-being of that country's citizens.
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Requiring university students to take a variety of courses outside their major fields of study is the best way to ensure that students become truly educated.
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It is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero.
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