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"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love." »Don Barthelme
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"The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics." »Emmeline Pankhurst
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"Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another." »Thomas Jefferson
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"The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety." »Charles Robert Darwin
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"The argument is at an end." »Saint Augustine
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"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance." »Louis D. Brandeis
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"Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools." »Charles Simmons
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"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it." »Edward W. Howe
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"All you get from a circular argument is dizzy." »Darrin Bell
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"Silence is argument carried out by other means." »Ernesto Che Guevara
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"Truth springs from argument amongst friends." »David Hume
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"When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff." »Cicero
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"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress." »Jeseph Joubert
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"You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument." »Samuel Johnson
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"argument is the worst sort of conversation." »Jonathan Swift
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"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." »William G. McAdoo
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth." »Publilius Syrus
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"I have found you an argument I am not obliged to find you an understanding." »James Boswell
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"A single fact can spoil a good argument." »Anonymous
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"The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it." »Andr Maurois
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"The argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence." »Ayn Rand
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"I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding." »Samuel Johnson
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"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion." »G. K. Chesterton
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"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding." »James Boswell
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"The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory." »Leonardo DaVinci
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"The modern definition of "racist" is "someone who is winning an argument with a liberal" »Peter Brimelow, National Review (2/1/93)
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"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." »William Shakespeare
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