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We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.
Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.
In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.
Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?
The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.
Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are?
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.
The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
I have an amazing relationship with my wife, but sometimes there are arguments. It happens.
My favorite comedians are just presenting an argument, and they're doing it in a funny way.
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.
The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.
There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.
Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.
Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.
There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.
They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. -T-Shirt
I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.