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• Don’t forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

  Frederick the Great

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• At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

  Frederick Douglass

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• Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There’s one more argument for birth control.

  Freddy Fender

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• In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

  Franz Kafka

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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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• Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

  Gertrude Stein

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• Don’t take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

  Baltasar Gracián

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• All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

  Samuel Johnson

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• Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

  Samuel Butler

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• The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

  Sydney J. Harris

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• That’s what we’re missing. We’re missing argument. We’re missing debate. We’re missing colloquy. We’re missing all sorts of things. Instead, we’re accepting.

  Studs Terkel

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• I will listen to any argument put to me.

  George Osborne

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• Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

  Cullen Hightower

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• I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

  Stanley Eugene Fish

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• Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.

  Stafford Cripps

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• If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

  George Henry Lewes

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• A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• I don’t feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

  Clifford Geertz

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• Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

  Thomas Hardy

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• My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

  Thomas Hardy

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