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• Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Two, Three, Facts

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• It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

  Oscar Wilde

  Personality, Intellectual, Intelligence

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.8, Mondial

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• There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that won't hold water. Many of the difficulties encountered by young people going to college would be avoided if parents and teachers were more careful to distinguish between what they know to be true and what they think may be true. Impetuous youth, upon finding the authority it trusts crumbling, even on unimportant details, is apt to lump everything together and throw the baby out with the bath.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Baby, Teacher, College

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• There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

  Mordecai Richler

  Guy, Three, Sides

  Mordecai Richler (1955). “Son of a smaller hero: a novel”

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• Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?

  Sarada Devi

  Men, People, Arguing

  Sarada Devi (1963). “At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi”

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• Let argument bear no unmusical sound.

  Ben Jonson

  Sound, Bears

  Ben Jonson (1856). “Poetical Works of Ben Jonson”, p.286

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• It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Order, Personality, Understanding

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• ..I've been trying to argue myself into thinking these things don't matter, A. Really,I have. But I've lost the argument. And I can't keep having it, when I know what the real answer is.

  David Levithan

  Real, Thinking, Trying

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.168, Egmont UK

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• Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fire, Flames, Perfection

  "The Glass Bead Game".

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• The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that "some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of life. It is clear that Iran is cynically manipulating gullible (or equally cynical) Europeans to advance its development of weapons of mass destruction.

  John Bolton

  Mass Destruction, Iran, Cynical

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• A real man wouldn't lay a finger on a woman. He treats his partner with respect, love and support. Men are physically stronger and have no place abusing that power. Everyone has problems, and arguments happen, but that's when a real man uses his intelligence to talk it out.

  Matt Lanter

  Real, Men, Support

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• Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Struggle, Mean

  "Rick Santorum: Nelson Mandela Fought ‘Great Injustice,’ Just Like Republicans Are Battling Obamacare" by Paige Lavender, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2013.

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• My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

  Pete Seeger

  Dad, Used, Professors

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• There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my daughter from elementary school and get into arguments with little children who would accuse me of betraying Han Solo.

  Billy Dee Williams

  Daughter, Children, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God. Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Matter, Evolution

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.246, Crown Forum

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• If it were true that conservatives were racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, stupid, inflexible, angry, and self-righteous, shouldn't their arguments be easy to deconstruct? Someone who is making a point out of anger, ideology, inflexibility, or resentment would presumably construct a flimsy argument. So why can't the argument itself be dismembered rather than the speaker's personal style or hidden motives? Why the evasions?

  Ann Coulter

  Stupid, Self, Style

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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

  Mean, Hands, Should Have

  "Nardwuar Vs. Jello Biafra: New Introduction by Kristen K.: Originally ran in Razorcake #08, 2002 By Nardwuar". Interview with Nardwuar, razorcake.org. 2002.

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• What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no argument, that all scientists who aren’t cranks and charlatans are agreed on all this, that the consequences are uniformly negative, the issues beyond doubt and the steps to be taken beyond dispute.

  Michael Buerk

  Taken, Government, Issues

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• What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth

  Mary Jo Bang

  Mind, Desire, Wire

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• It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands of years. It is that we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption. Throughout the centuries the common thread in the arguments against eating animals is the fact that since we have no nutritional requirement for the flesh or fluids of animals, killing them to simply satisfy our taste-buds or habits or customs amounts to senseless slaughter, and senseless slaughter is no small thing.

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Years

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• Paul Davies takes us on a logically and rhetorically compelling modern search for human agency. This outstanding analysis, well informed by naturalistic views of our evolved affective nature, is the kind of philosophical work that is essential for a field to move forward when ever-increasing findings from modern science are inconsistent with traditional philosophical arguments. This book is for all who wish to immerse themselves in the modern search for free will. It is steeped in the rich liqueur of current scientific and philosophical perspectives and delusions.

  Jaak Panksepp

  Moving, Book, Philosophical

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• It is not your right—based on YOUR traditions, YOUR customs and YOUR habits—to deny animals THEIR freedom so you can harm them, enslave them and kill them. Thats not what rights are about. Thats injustice. There is no counter-argument to veganism. Accept it. Apologize for the way youve been living. Make amends and move forward.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Moving, Animal, Rights

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• You certainly wouldn’t want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place.

  Peter van Inwagen

  Believe, Want, Firsts

  Peter Van Inwagen (1998). “The Possibility of Resurrection and Other Essays in Christian Apologetics”

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• The man who cannot listen to an argument which opposes his views either has a weak position or is a weak defender of it. No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding. And it has been wisely said that the man who knows only half of any question is worse off than the man who knows nothing of it. He is not only one-sided but his partisanship soon turns him into an intolerant and a fanatic. In general it is true that nothing which cannot stand up under discussion or criticism is worth defending.

  James E. Talmage

  Men, Views, Criticism

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• What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Intuition, Forget, Obvious

  Rebecca Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.17, Pantheon

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