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Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.
People call me fussy, but that's a fallacy.
To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.
Every liberal position is built on a fallacy.
Assuming audiences to be dumb, that's a big fallacy.
Zionism is the most stupendous fallacy in Jewish history
The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy.
I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.
Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy.
Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.
The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.
This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.
To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.
The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
It's a fallacy that people think that today's teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.
The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.
A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.
Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.
A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.
Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.
I often liken my love life to the pathetic fallacy found in a Bronte novel: a long and winding road tented by storm clouds and rain. Kidding.
Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.
I don't believe in gun bans; that's a fallacy that people have, that they think if you believe in gun control you want to ban guns. That's not true.
The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the great fallacies of our time.
There is no such thing as 'separation of church and state.' Reporters continue to promote this fallacy and scare Christians out of standing up for their beliefs.
Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.
People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy.
The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
There's a fallacy with stand up comedy, which is, people come up to comedians, and they go, 'You say what I think but I'm not brave enough to say,' and that's not particularly true.
I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
The American dream tells you that you'll have success if you work hard enough, and we have some concerns about that fallacy. Hopefully, the characters in our films learn to redefine success.
I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I'll be OK.' Then I catch myself.
There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.
I never enquire into the origin of things, all Origin is a fallacy (in this I follow Nietzsche: origin is a very contested Cartesian illusion of reliability). Everything reaches us filtered through culture.
I feel that The American Dream is this fallacy that you come to the United States and win lotto. That's a disservice to The American Dream because the American Dream is worth striving for. And it's not easy.