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Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.
Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.
You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.
First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.
We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.
When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.
He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.
When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.
It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.
Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.
My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.
I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.
But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.
Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.
An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.
If you can’t reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there’s something wrong with your argument.
Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .
A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.
Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.
There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.
The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.
Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.
When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.
The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.
If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!
In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.