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George Bernard Shaw
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| "A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince
his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and
philosophy. ? Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it
dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to
the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over
the most obstinate and inflexible. ? Philip of Macedon was a man of most
invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens;
confounded their statesmen; struck their orators dumb; and at length
argued them out of all their liberties." | |
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Joseph Addison
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| "A word to the wise is often enough to start an argument." | |
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Unknown
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| "Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than
by a thousand arguments." | |
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Nathaniel Emmons
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| "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they"re yours." | |
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Richard Bach
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| "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they"re yours." | |
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Richard David Bach
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| "Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often
convincing." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as
in books it is generally the worst sort of reading." | |
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Jonathan Swift
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| "Arguments derived from probabilities are idle." | |
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Plato
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| "Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions." | |
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Newton Booth Tarkington
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| "Beaten with his owne rod." | |
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John Heywood
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| "Behind every argument is someone"s ignorance." | |
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Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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| "Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm
him at his fire." | |
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George Herbert
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| "He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of
his argument." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles
of his own." | |
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Aesop
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| "He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his
reason is weak." | |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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| "He who establishes his arguments by noise and command shows that
reason is weak." | |
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Michel de Montaigne
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| "Heat and animosity, contest and conflict may sharpen the wits,
although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear
the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart." | |
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Walter Savage Landor
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| "I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis
of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous,
and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present,
representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings
than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these
sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans
and foreigners from other countries." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "I am not arguing with you?I am telling you." | |
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
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| "I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I
have no respect." | |
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Edward Gibbon
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| "If you can"t answer a man"s argument, all is not lost; you can still
call him vile names." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of
reason as to administer medication to the dead." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." | |
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William Gibbs McAdoo
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| "It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue About
them." | |
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Beaumarchais
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| "Men argue; nature acts." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "Men"s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes." | |
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Charles Caleb Colton
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| "Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for
going on believing as we already do." | |
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James Harvey Robinson
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| "Never argue; repeat your assertion." | |
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Robert Owen
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| "Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight." | |
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Phyllis Diller
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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." | |
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Jascha Heifetz
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| "People generally quarrel because they cannot argue." | |
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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| "Quarrels would not last so long if the fault were only on one
side." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "Silence is argument carried on by other means." | |
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| "Silence is argument carried out by other means." | |
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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| "Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute." | |
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Josh Billings
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| "The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but
progress." | |
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Joseph Joubert
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| "The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in
the right." | |
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Lord Hailsham
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| "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given
out." | |
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Proverb
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| "The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person
who argues with him." | |
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Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
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| "The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of
it." | |
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Edgar Watson "Ed" Howe
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| "Truth springs from argument amongst friends." | |
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David Hume
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| "When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of
paper all the arguments in favor of each one ? then on the opposite side I
write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro
and con and canceling them out, one against the other, I take the course
indicated by what remains." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most
part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless." | |
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Cardinal John Henry Newman
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| "When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same at
last." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief." | |
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Francesco Petrarca Petrarch
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| "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." | |
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John, Lord Morley
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