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• I’d rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

  Rafael Nadal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discussion, Argument
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  To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

  Thomas Paine

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  Tags in Argument, Reason
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  I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

  Iain Banks

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  Tags in Argument

• In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken’, and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen.

  Carl Sagan

  Topics in Politics, Religion

  Tags in School, Argument, Science

• Most arguments are instances of an inability to make it clear that we are essentially in agreement.

  Shraga Silverstein

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  Tags in Argument

• Just as we must not fall for a bad argument because of good arguing, we must not overlook a good argument because the arguing is bad.

  Shraga Silverstein

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  Tags in Argument

• One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.

  Jerry Saltz

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  Tags in Argument, Artists
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  He who strikes the first blow admits he’s lost the argument.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

  Tags in Argument

• You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

  John Morley

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Argument

• You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

  Samuel Johnson

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  Tags in Argument

• There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

  John Romero

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  Tags in Argument, Definite

• One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

  David F. Houston

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  Tags in Argument

• First of all, you can make the argument that there’s no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

  David McCullough

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  Tags in Argument

• The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

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  Tags in Arguing, Argument

• I’ve had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you’re carrying a grudge, they’re out dancing.

  Buddy Hackett

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  Tags in Argument

• You can make an argument that Bill O’Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill’s kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.

  Brit Hume

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Argument

• This band has never had an argument. It’s just amazing.

  Dave Edmunds

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  Tags in Argument

• I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Relationships, Fantastic, Argument

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Argument, Community, Creed, Credo

• To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced – this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

  Fredrik Bajer

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  Tags in Instructive, Argument, Report