“When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence”
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“If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?”
C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)
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“There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes”
James Morrow quotes
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“If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
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“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance”
Robert Quillen quotes
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“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”
Winston Churchill quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)
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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.”
Jack Benny quotes (American Entertainer whose unusual comedic method and expert timing made him a legendary success in US radio and television for more than 30 years. 1894-1974)
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“When a man uses profanity to support an argument, it indicates that either the man or the argument is weak - probably both”
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“I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. 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.”
Dave Barry quotes (American Writer and Humorist best known for his weekly newspaper column. b.1947)
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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say -- and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln
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My dear sir, they don't debate. Each of them merely issues an ultimatum, and in what a tone! It all goes to show what extraordinary people they are, each more unequivocal than the other. - "The Old Lady and the Bear"
Colette
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There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Daniel Dennett
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Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Daniel Dennett
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Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Arguments are often like melodramas -- they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.
Gay Hendricks
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Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.
Gay Hendricks
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One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.
Gay Hendricks
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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
Jack Lynch
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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher
Jonathan Kozol
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
Jonathan Swift
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'
Dick Wolf
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Mary Pettibone Poole:
To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,
requires brains.
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Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.
Jello Biafra
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I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
Peter L. Berger
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
H. Rap Brown
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It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue.
Sam Adams
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When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument
Virginia Woolf
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“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
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The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
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`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
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`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
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`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets
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himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”
enigmaticfaerie Douglas Adams quotes (British comic Writer, 1952-2001)
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For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
Janet Frame
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“The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.”
George Carlin quotes (American stand-up Comedian, Actor and Author. b.1937)
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“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”
Robert Quillen quotes
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No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Thomas Berger
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At a time like this, scorching iron, not convincing argument, is needed.
Frederick Douglass
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“The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.”
Andrea Dworkin quotes
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“The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.”
Dale Carnegie quotes (American lecturer, author, 1888-1955)
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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.”
Stephen Wright quotes (American Actor and Writer, b.1955)
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“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
Colin Powell quotes (Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93). At present, US Secretary of State, 1937)
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“My life is my argument.”
Albert Schweitzer quotes (German medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician and Philosopher. 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, 1875-1965)
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen
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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Robert Benchley
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“That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not”
Thomas Paine quotes (English born American Writer and political pamphleteer, whose 'Common Sense' and 'Crisis' papers were important influences on the American Revolution. 1737-1809)
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“Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument.”
Gioacchino Rossini quotes
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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Francis Beaumont
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For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
William Banting
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