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“There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.”
“Excluding certain ideas and thoughts, calling them hate speech, is an important piece in the progressive movements puzzle. If you cant win an argument logically, demonize your opponent, make him ou...”
“1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought.2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue.3. Therefore, God is a being than which no being could be more virtuous.4. But...”
“That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.”
“Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.”
“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.”
“Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.”
“The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.”
“This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.”
“Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.”
“The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.”
“Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument. ”
“No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.”
“I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.”
“...some student asked if he [Larry Summers] didnt have essentially the same relationship with Bob Rubin. Wasnt Summers opposition to capital controls just a sop to Wall Street banks, which wanted t...”
“I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all ...”
“A healthy argument, even with an idiot, is always good; it opens one's eyes to own misunderstandings.”
“You shall not leave me in that temper.I should be miserable all night, and I wont be miserable for you!”
“How I win over you is with modulation of words that i use, winning is not the argument but peace of mind. You may call it diplomatic, guess what? I don't care !”
“Christian writers, whether they like it or not, do not simply write for themselves; for good or ill, readers will see their work as reflecting Jesus Christ and his church. And if only for this reas...”
