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“People tune in to the Fox News Channel because it was founded on the premise that all sides should be presented fairly. This has upset the 'media establishment' but has made Fox the most powerful name in the news. I'm proud that Hannity & Colmes has contributed to this success, an achievement that has been often dissected by liberal media pundits who argue that Sean is more aggressive than I am and therefore dominates the show.”

“The great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up. That is possible for those who never argue and strive with people and facts, but in all experience retires upon themselves, and look for the ultimate cause of things in themselves.”

People Looks Persons Character Facts Used Causes Secret Ultimate Strive Arguing Retiring Secret To Success

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.”

Term Arguing Inclination

Author:Dalton McGuinty

“In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write.”

Writing Sides Paper Slavery Bounds Arguing Debate Punishment Pro Slavery

Author:Kami Garcia

“I believe not only that religious faith will be victorious, but that it is vital to humankind that it shall be. We may differ in form and particulars in our religious faith. Those are matters that are sacred to each of our inner sanctuaries. It is our privilege to decline to argue them. Their real demonstration is the lives that we live.”

Believe May Real Matter Form Faith I Believe Religious Sacred Privilege Arguing Decline Humankind Religious Faith Demonstration Sanctuary

Author:Herbert Hoover

“Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.”

Hours Waste Sentences Arguing Punishment Paradox Serving Delay Epigrams Precious Time

Author:Peter De Vries

“It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves.”

Thinking Ideas Poor Results Poverty Rights Theory Easier Arguing Abstract

Author:Walter Lippmann

“When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.”

Thinking Argument Arguing

Book:A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

“In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.”

People Ends Belief Arguing

Author:Timothy Keller

“When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.”

Causes Gold Arguing Eloquence

Author:Publilius Syrus

“Why argue about things you can't prove?”

Prove Arguing

Author:William Ruckelshaus

“Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.”

Writing Doe Reader Intelligent Conviction Arguing Genre Aphorism Wiser Quotations Assertion Implicit Aristocratic

Author:W. H. Auden

“Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.”

Wells Modern Poet Arguing Jackals Modern Poetry Snarling

Author:Cyril Connolly

“Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.”

Kind Language Term Communication Behavior Mass Ethics Program Communicate Arguing Precise Articulation Showbiz Mass Communication

Author:Frederic Raphael

“Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers?”

Men Needs Brother Arguing Inequality

Author:Charles Du Bos

“Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love.”

Art Self Cities Various Arguing Paris Centre Boast Civilisation

Author:Julian Barnes

“The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.”

Use Body Law Pay Brain Arguing

Book:MAN AND WIFE

Source: MAN AND WIFE

“I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me advise you right up front that I am not a big believer in writer's block. I think writer's block is God's way of telling you one of two things - that you failed to think your material through sufficiently before you started writing, or that you need a day or two off with your family and friends.”

Source: Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

“I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.”

Stills Literature Half Events Humour British Convinced Arguing Professors Council Other Half

Author:Tibor Fischer

“My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.”

Wife Cooking Males Dinner My Wife Arguing Cooking Love Cooking And Love

Author:Stephen Bayley

“The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.”

Knows Men Should Said Strong Sound Business Principles Greater Morality Weakness Defeat Arguing Compromise Contradictory Admission Strong Man

Book:The Age of Paradox

Source: The Age of Paradox

“Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?”

Knows Wells Faces Paint Arguing

Author:Ronnie Wood

“I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.”

Art Wanted Passion Arguing

Author:James Broughton

“Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.”

Humans Has Beens Next Steps Arguing Organized Scholar Human History Clash Next Steps Organized Religion

Author:Mary Douglas

“I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.”

Humans Certain Order Reading Alive Arguing Fundamentalism Human Experience Staying Alive

Author:Chaim Potok

“I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.”

People Persons Has Beens Used Social Television Spending Arguing

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.”

People Thinking I Can Beats Arguing Rhythm

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda.”

Should Next President Determination Strikes Arguing Generosity Opponents Agendas Defeated Gore Posture Proceeding

Author:Richard V. Allen

“It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.”

Ifs Today Law Difficult Challenges Impossible Written Arguing Adequate

Author:Bob Barr

“People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!”

People Acting Skills Performances Arguing Juliet

Author:Deborah Bull

“I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.”

Stills Hard Consciousness Machines Arguing Exhibits

Author:Iain Banks

“You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.”

Ifs Long Play Courses Practice Missing Green Golf Average Arguing Yards Golfers Golf Course

Author:Amy Alcott

“I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.”

Issues Roots Arguing

Author:Dinesh D'Souza

“There's only person in the world you can't see - yourself. But, God created - or whoever created us, we don't even have to argue that point - created us so perfect because we can actually see ourselves in other people.”

People World Persons Perfect Arguing

Author:Debbie Ford

“Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.”

Facts Opposites Arguing Clock Measurement Synonym

Author:Jay Griffiths

“What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.”

Mind Memories Ability Creativity Scene Skills Paint Forgotten Arguing Feats

Author:Joshua Foer

“I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?”

Ifs Firsts Believe Has Beens Art Ideas Literature I Believe Century Sight Arguing Dedicated Love At First Sight Believe In Love Literature And Art

Author:Maggie Grace

“The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.”

Important Important Things Arguing Good Marriage

Author:Anita Ekberg

“I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.”

Kind Art Enough Hands Opinion Doctors Intelligent Arguing

Author:Rupert Friend

“In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.”

People Reason Stories Arguing Scotland Scots

Book:George Mackay Brown: fiction - poetry - reviews : Stewart Conn, Tom Scott, Luis Ceruuda

Source: George Mackay Brown: fiction - poetry - reviews : Stewart Conn, Tom Scott, Luis Ceruuda

“Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast.”

Heart Lasts Fall Arguing Breasts Scotland Bargains Scots

Book:A Carnegie Anthology

Source: A Carnegie Anthology

“The helium which we handle must have been put together at some time and some place. We do not argue with the critic who urges that the stars are not hot enough for this process; we tell him to go and find a hotter place.”

Has Beens Enough Together Science Stars Process Hot Critics Arguing Handle Urges Hotter Helium

Author:Arthur Eddington

“Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.”

Century Arguing Dialogue Composer

Author:Brian Ferneyhough

“It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.”

People Ifs Wells Lying Individual Responsibility Climate Climate Change Arguing Acceptable

Author:Peter Garrett

“I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.”

States Bigger Presses Defense Arguing Being True Budgets Secretary

Author:Robert M. Gates

“I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years.”

Thinking Years Hard Done Records Arguing Disappointed Touring Great Music Good Years

Author:Jerry Harrison

“There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering.”

Years Week Military Tvs Police Arguing Classic Cop Hierarchy Cliche Bickering

Author:Peter James

“Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.”

Trying Persons Presses Arguing Express Yourself Hysterical

Author:Ezra Koenig

“The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.”

Way Political Virtue Path Position Harder Oneself Arguing Honorable Vigorous

Author:Jon Meacham

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