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Idea · From the Margen catalogue

On Being Right

Being right is a comfortable place with no windows. It's warm in there, but you can't see a thing.

Whoever wins an argument ends up exactly where they started; whoever loses it has, with luck, moved an inch. That is why the most interesting people I know argue badly on purpose: they leave gaps for the other person's air to get in.

Certainty keeps you warm in winter and suffocates you in summer. And it is almost always summer.