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Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.
Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.
If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it.
Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms
Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.
You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.
The ethical argument regarding abortion hinges on the question of when life begins. Some believe life begins at forty.
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.
History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.
I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.
You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.
Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.
Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.
True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.
Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.
My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.
I've been trying to make this argument that digital comics and print comics are both art, but there are subtle differences.
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
I've always had an argument with my best friend that Spider-Man was way better than Batman. I was a massive fan growing up.
I don't feel ashamed to be loud, which is an argument I've had with lots of men, who thought I was too sassy and unladylike.
The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.
The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.
The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."
Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
I'm not afraid of confrontation. It doesn't have to be an argument. We all have a voice. And they are all worth listening to.
The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.
Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.
It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.
There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.
If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.