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This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides sometimes there are a hundred.

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Mort Sahl
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: May 11
Actor
Comedian
Journalist
Montreal
Quebec
Morton Lyon Sahl
Every
Logic
Hundred
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Sides
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Two
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