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• Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

  Oscar Wilde

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  Tags in Argument

• Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

  Oscar Wilde

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  Tags in Exactly, Argument, Vulgar

• Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

  Phyllis Diller

  Topics in America

  Tags in Cabbage, Robbed, Argument, American

• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  Wendell Berry

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  Tags in Argument, Dawn

• One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.

  Gay Hendricks

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Change/Growth, Learning, Argument, Relationships, Marriage, Creativity

• Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

  Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conflict, Ethics, Values, Argument, Communication

• One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

  Alice Miller

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Argument, Listening

• That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

  Thomas Paine

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  Tags in Proof, Bible, Advantage, Argument, Lie

• Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

  Harriet Martineau

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  Tags in Argument, Weakness, Sure

• Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Tags in Writers And Writing, Argument, Ideas

• Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.

  Ray Stannard Baker

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  Tags in Lynching, Argument, Sooner

• When the philosopher’s argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense

  Edward Abbey

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  Tags in Argument, Philosophy

• Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher

  Jonathan Kozol

  Topics in Education, Success, Wisdom

  Tags in Winning, Argument

• When I’m alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

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  Tags in Bed, Alone, Argument, Sleep

• It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue.

  Samuel Adams

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  Tags in Minorities, Character, Argument, Virtue, Freedom

• Convincing yourself doesn’t win an argument.

  Robert Half

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  Tags in Yourself, Argument, Win

• Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

  Victor Hugo

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  Tags in Words, Bitterness, Argument, Weak

• When I’m getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say — and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

  Abraham Lincoln

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  Tags in Argument, Reason

• Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

  Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach

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  Tags in Argument, Reason

• There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

  Daniel Clement Dennett

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  Tags in Argument, Reason