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It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.

Source: The Argument Culture; 27 Mar 1998 interview with Jim Lehrer on The NewsHour.
-- Deborah Tannen, (Jun 7 1951-____), US sociolinguist, writer; 0

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