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There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.

David Hewson

Believe, Writing, Luck

David Hewson (2012). “Writing: A User Manual: A practical guide to planning, starting and finishing a novel”, p.227, A&C Black

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I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason occurs when reason stands over and above the gospel like a magistrate and judges it on the basis of argument and evidence. The ministerial use of reason occurs when reason submits to and serves the gospel…. Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.

William Lane Craig

Christian, Thinking, Judging

"Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics". Book by William Lane Craig, p. 36, 1994.

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You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.

Charlie Munger

Best Love, Ideas, Challenges

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If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

Abraham Lincoln

Men, Two, Four

Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1959). “The collected works of Abraham Lincoln”

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What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Austin Farrer

Climate, Doe, May

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Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.

Jonathan Gottschall

Intellectual, Fiction, Stories

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Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Alister E. McGrath

Climate, Doe, May

Alister E. McGrath (2013). “The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis”, p.134, John Wiley & Sons

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The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.

William H. Gray III

School, America, Minorities

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I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.

Rian Johnson

Ghetto, Thinking, Get Better

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Scientists and theologians can’t offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible, and scientists quote other scientists. How do either scientists or theologians answer this question about the accuracy of their conclusions: “In reference to what?

Frank Schaeffer

Answers, Kind, Scientist

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Scholarship is polite argument.

Philip Rieff

Knowledge, Scholarship, Polite

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It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

Lloyd Cutler

Lawyer, Responsible, Made

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Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.

Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

Keys, Defense, World

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Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Islam extremists than they might like to think, for it's the very same argument of course advanced by Al-Qaida. And they do have it wrong. We need to work with mainstream Islam.

Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

Thinking, Islam, Needs

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In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

Buzz Bissinger

Football, College, Years

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I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.

Richard LaGravenese

Real, Believe, Fighting

"Director Richard LaGravenese Talks BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, Adapting the Book, Deleted Scenes, BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, and THE LAST FIVE YEARS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 16, 2013.

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Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

Jose Padilha

Objectivity, People, Principles

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Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.

Rene Descartes

Challenges, Looks, Reputation

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It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.

William Butler Yeats

Plato, Eye, Imagination

William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.418, Hayes Barton Press

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... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to believe in anything despite the complete lack of evidence is, in fact, irrational.

Massimo Pigliucci

Believe, Religion, Atheism

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The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of nature free from the hand of man. The argument gets at the heart of what the loss of nature will mean to us....God seems to be insisting that we are not the center of the universe, that he is quite happy if it rains where there are no people - that God is quite happy with places where there are no people, a radical departure from our most ingrained notions.

Bill McKibben

Jobs, Rain, Book

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Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.

Sterling W Sill

Eye, Fighting, Winning

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LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.

Ambrose Bierce

Science, Blue, Two

Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2446, Delphi Classics

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Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

Michel de Montaigne

Stubborn, Serious, Heat

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Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

Winston Churchill

Long, Unity, Painting

Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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