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“Polemic, or the art of throwing eggs, is … as highly skilled a job as, say, boxing… keep your face straight and throw them well! The difficulty is: not to make superfluous noises or gestures, which don’t harm the other man but only yourself.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein, in Recollections of Wittgenstein, Rush Rhees, ed.

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