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Miguel de Unamuno
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At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.
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James Morrow
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There are no atheists in foxholes isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.
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James Morrow
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"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.
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Charles Robert Darwin
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The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety.
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Edward R. Murrow
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After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.
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Unknown
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Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.
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Saul Bellow
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Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.
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George Pratt Shultz
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Nothing ever gets settled in this town. ... a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.
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Jeseph Joubert
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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Eric Pio
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You are not an artist,an artist creates. You do not write your own songs. End of debate.
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Edward W. Howe
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
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Louis D. Brandeis
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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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Darrin Bell
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All you get from a circular argument is dizzy.
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Jeseph Joubert
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Jonathan Swift
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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James Boswell
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I have found you an argument I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Winston Churchill
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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Andr Maurois
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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
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William Shakespeare
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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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Leonardo DaVinci
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
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George Santayana
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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Steven Wright
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In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
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Steven Wright
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In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at theroulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
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James Russell Lowell
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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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William Pitt
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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants it is the creed of slaves.
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Omar Khayym
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went.
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George Burton Adams
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Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
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Dave Barry
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I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
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MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 22.
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What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That, to the height of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence And justify the ways of God to men.
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SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iv., Sc. 4.
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Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, When honor's at the stake.
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John Fellows Akers
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After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy Astor . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee Whereupon Winston Churchill answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it.
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
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Lord Melbourne
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Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.
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Walt Whitman
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Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.
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Marilyn Ferguson
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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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A funny thing is if you're out hiking and your friend gets bit by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going for help, then go about ten feet and pretend YOU got bit by a snake. Then start an argument about who's going to get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
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Economics Teacher In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone Anyone... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone Anyone The tariff bill The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act Which, anyone Raised or lowered... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work Anyone Anyone know the effects It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is Class Anyone Anyone Anyone seen this before The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980 Anyone Something-d-o-o economics. Voodoo economics.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
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When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
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The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
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In war and debate, truth is the first casualty.
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When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
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Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
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"The subject of today's political debate: politics." -- Nelson
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"It's not open for debate--this baby is coming!"--Keiko
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"It's not open for debate -- this baby is coming!" -- Keiko
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"This is the strangest debate format I've ever seen." -- Joel
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Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler woul
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"It's not open for debate!" - Keiko
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The best way to win an argument is to be right.
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The argument is at an end.
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'Ello... I'd like to buy an argument
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An argument isn't just contradiction.
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Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.
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You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
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When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.
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Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
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I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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A single fact can spoil a good argument.
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The modern definition of racist is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
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"This is not a good time, Keiko." "It's not open for debate!"
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
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Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
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Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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"Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken." -- Book of Chan
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"Pig's arse," said Roddles, as @FN@ pointed out a hole in his argument
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To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
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"Bill Clinton, The Best Argument for the Retroactive Abortion..."
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"An argument for limited omniscience could be made." Dan Lafferty
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"Argument is the opiate of the net.aholics" J. Parsons, NZ_RELIGION.
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Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
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"I was simply trying to avoid an argument." McCoy
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"Well an argument isn't just contradiction." - Monty Python
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An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.
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"An argument isn't just contradiction." - Monty Python
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