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“Some psychologists argue that the idea of God is a response to our emotional needs, but this presumption is backwards. Our emotional fluctuations are a psychological response to our lack of love for God. If God is everything, what else could we possibily want?”

Ifs Want Needs Ideas Emotional Catholic Response Arguing Psychological God Love Backwards Psychologist Presumption Fluctuation Lack Of Love Emotional Needs

Author:Tarek Saab

“Some people would argue the other side: that the business of business is business, and companies should only be focused on profits. But in today's world, I don't think corporations can only be focused on profits, because they are inextricably linked with the communities that they serve. I do not believe you can be a leader in your industry without being a leader in your community. It's a fundamental shift in how you think about business.”

“People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new.”

People Want Looks Knowledge Forever Learning Ready Waste Management Arguing Something New Wasting Time Don't Waste Time

Book:Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

Source: Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

“We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.”

Results Civilization Argument Arguing Thrive Biology

Author:Charles Siebert

“Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.”

Used Hours Player Football Athlete Arguing Football Player Best Athlete

Author:Warren Moon

“There just isn’t a weak season of 'Breaking Bad.' There’s just superior work, a sprint toward evil that turned into a marathon. But like all big-talker shows that bring their heavy cargo in for a rough and breathlessly observed landing, 'Breaking Bad' didn’t quite leave itself enough runway to satisfactorily end some of its better story lines, especially once the chronology gap closed up between the flash-forwards from last year’s episodes and Sunday night’s conclusion. One could easily argue that there was just too much left to do in this one episode.”

“In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around; And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.”

Stills Sound Wonder Learning Grew Skills Arguing Length Gazing Vanquish

Book:The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

“Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.”

Men Judgment Glasses Arguing Beer Preference

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Umpires are like emotional girlfriends, once they make up their minds, there is no point in arguing”

Mind Emotional Arguing Girlfriend Tennis No Point Umpires

Author:Dmitry Tursunov

“I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.”

Love Life Love Is Arguing Thee Immortality Love Life Emily Love Is Life

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“The text [The Skeptical Environmentalist] employs the strategy of those who, for example, argue ...that Jews weren't singled out by the Nazis for extermination.”

Example Strategy Climate Change Jew Arguing Nazi Skeptical Environmentalist Extermination

Author:Stuart L. Pimm

“Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advances, which, like the hand of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.”

Men Mind Hands Pleasure Industry Habit Approach Labor Excellence Rewards Arguing Observation Granted Clock Persevere Strength Of Mind

Book:Seven Discourses on Art

Source: Seven Discourses on Art

“No honest man will argue on every side”

Men Sides Honest Honesty Arguing Honest Man

Author:Sophocles

“Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.”

People Writing Law Hours Pay Internet Computer Arguing Digital Ink

Book:The IMac Book

Source: The IMac Book

“Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog.”

Names Dog Notion Arguing God Exists Fleas Whether God Exists

Book:Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door

Source: Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door

“I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual and moral cowards.”

Looks May Seems Moral Position Intellectual Deny Arguing Look Up Urges Coward Censorship Pernicious

Author:William Borah

“So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.”

Literature Justice Wise Fool Arguing Usual Handsome Dullness Bright Eyes

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

“Whenever I think about an issue, I always argue the opposite side of it. So, when I ultimately decide on a course of action, I've already been through all the conceivable scenarios, and I'm going to go for it.”

Thinking Action Courses Sides Leadership Issues Opposites Arguing Scenarios

Author:Kenneth I. Chenault

“Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.”

Men Needs Humans Persons Stills Nice Fairs Anger Bones Arguing Disagree Altered Human Relations Human Relationships Nice Person

Author:Warren Farrell

“The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.”

Numbers Argument Arguing Unimportant

Author:Ralph Hartley

“Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse”

Arguing Converses

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.”

Should Cutting Taxes Towns Arguing Tax Cuts

Author:Richard Neal

“And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.”

Universe Force Arguing Ownership

Author:Chris Chocola

“Saddam is a war criminal and there are no two people who can argue over this.”

People Two War Criminals Arguing Saddam

Author:Muqtada al Sadr

“It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and, second, civil liberty.”

Men Needs Writing Firsts May Two Light Christian Spiritual Liberty Christianity Mankind Civilization Pure Highest Arguing Civil Liberties

Book:Our Country

Source: Our Country

“Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.”

Nations Quality Doubt Teacher Century Fundamentals Arguing 21st Century

Author:David Puttnam

“I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.”

Knows Want Mind Made Bed Arguing

Author:James Agate

“Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.”

Hard Enough Too Much Player Arguing Strings Enough Time Pianist

Author:Emanuel Ax

“Lou Piniella only argues on days ending with the letter 'y'.”

Letters Arguing

Author:Ron Luciano

“You can argue with someone's opinion, but you can't argue with their story.”

Stories Opinion Arguing

Book:Run Baby Run

Source: Run Baby Run

“The Bible is not a book like any other. It makes a claim that God spoke and speaks through its message. It argues that as his creatures, we are accountable to him for what he has revealed. The trustworthiness of Scripture points to its authority as well. Scripture is far more than a history book, as good and trustworthy as that history is. It is a book that calls us to examine our lives and relationship to God. Beyond the fascinating history, it contains vital and life-transforming truths about God and us.”

Wells Book Speak Our Lives Creatures Authority Messages Claims Arguing Scripture Fascinating Spokes Transforming Trustworthy History Books Trustworthiness

Author:Darrell Bock

“Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing the world with eyes and heart wide open. Through writing we declare a personal identity amid faceless anonymity. We find purpose and beauty and meaning even when the rational mind argues that none of these exist. Writing therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?”

“It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.”

Character Arguing

Author:Michael Ondaatje

“How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.”

Firsts Industry Perception Arguing

Author:Meryl Streep

“There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.”

Thinking Firsts Ideas Keys Notes Careful Take Care Arguing Debate Plenty New Ideas Ideation

Author:Jim Rohn

“The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him home, and see if you cannot discover the reason of his enmity to the Word of the Lord. It lies in some sort of sin.”

Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series

“The chicken is a dinosaur. I mean, it really is. You can't argue with it, because we're the classifiers and we've classified it that way.”

Way Mean Inspiration Motivation Arguing Chickens Dinosaurs

Author:Jack Horner

“The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.”

People Knows Men World Business Ought Mets Arguing Distinction Sensible Spinning Cobwebs

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“The time for arguing about the powers the people want is over. It's time now to use the powers that we have.”

People Want Use Arguing Over It

Author:Ruth Davidson

“So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.”

Long Country Law Cases Impossible Military Protection Arguing Disarmament Armament

Author:Ludwig Quidde

“I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did”

Thinking Arguing Tarts

Author:Julian Clary

“I also knew that if people have a position on something and you try to argue them into changing it, you’re going to strengthen that position. If you want to change people’s ideas, you shouldn’t try to convince them intellectually. What you need to do is get them into a situation where they’ll have to act on ideas not argue about them.”

People Ifs Want Needs Trying Ideas Situation Position Arguing Convince

Author:Myles Horton

“If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.”

Ifs Able Fool Arguing Passing Passings Passing By

Author:Wilma Mankiller

“The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice system (or saddled with criminal records) is not - as many argue - just a symptom of poverty or poor choices, but rather evidence of a new racial caste system at work.”

“It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way.”

Way Reality Energy Movement Waste Arguing Frightening Skepticism

Author:Graham Linehan

“Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for the more analytic side of strategy.”

Firsts Humans Art War Used Sides Creative Ten Strategy Arguing Council Analytics Athens

Author:Max McKeown

“But then again, those who argue against squatting and deadlifting on the same day may just be pussies.”

May Arguing Pussy

Author:Mark Rippetoe

“A judgmental attitude helps neither ourselves nor others. Arguing or preaching rarely changes other people. Even if our opinions are justified, criticizing others usually makes them wary and defensive. And it takes our attention away from our own lives, which we can change.”

People Ifs Helping Attention Attitude Opinion Arguing Criticize Preaching Justified Judgmental Mental Attitude Criticizing Others

Book:The Tao of Inner Peace: A Guide to Inner Peace

Source: The Tao of Inner Peace: A Guide to Inner Peace

“In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.”

Writing Facts Ability Fiction Skills Arguing Intensity Exploits Fiction Writers

Author:James Scott Bell

“Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story – what happens before the novel opens – is especially troublesome. How can we give the essentials and avoid a mere information drop? Use dialogue. First, create a tension-filled scene, usually between two characters. Get them arguing, confronting each other. Then you can have the information appear in the natural course of things.”

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