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“Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.”

Kind Different House Argument Dollars Congress Different Kinds Funding Pentagon

Author:Rachel Maddow

“My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.”

Should Lines Business Argument Bottom Profit Finance Bloody Bottom Line

Author:Anita Roddick

“Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.”

“Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.”

Writing Made Joy Argument Driven Nails

Author:George Will

“A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.”

“Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.”

Ifs Littles Stills Hard Hard Work Argument Workers Fairness Minimum Disturbed Minimum Wage

Author:Christina Romer

“There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.”

Art Made Different Together Form Artist Type Becoming Argument Definite Videogame

Author:John Romero

“A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.”

Book Argument Proof Dialogue

Author:Ali Smith

“I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.”

Ifs Firsts Home House Argument Thirds Family And Friends Second Chance God First

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.”

Ifs Stuff Space Middle Argument Iraq East Regimes Middle East Venting

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the teacher in the school-room is either moral or it is a degrading force. But he can show the child no other moral basis for it than the Bible. Hence my argument is as perfect as clear. The teacher must be Christian. But the American Commonwealth has promised to have no religious character. Then it cannot be teacher.”

Children Character Shows School Christian Culture Force Religious Perfect Rooms Education Moral Christianity Clear Teacher Argument Bases Commonwealth Degrading True Education

Author:Robert Dabney

“Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.”

Art Different Turns Opinion Percent Argument Unstable Different Opinions

Author:Jerry Saltz

“On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.”

Should Hands Economic Policy Fairs Argument Raises Rate Faster Not Fair Tuition

Author:Charles M. Vest

“I love a good argument and sometimes I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut if I think someone is wrong... I've always fought for what I believe in, and I don't quit until I have accomplished what I set out to do.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Sometimes Hard I Believe Mouths Argument I Believe In Quitting Hard Times Accomplished Time Keeping

Author:Kenny Wormald

“I don't like watchingpeople get shot so I would be a little skittish about that - squeamish, but I must say, I don't think the argument that this is going to offend Muslims is a legitimate argument.”

Thinking Littles Would Be Shots Argument

Author:Jedediah Bila

“Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.”

Country Care America Lost Pay Prove Argument Democrat Health Care Expensive Other Countries Disputes Private Health Insurance

Author:Thomas Frank

“The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.”

Self Christian Joy Religion Dies Christianity Thousand Argument Certainty Strongest Righteous Complacent Self Righteous Completeness Consecration Somber

Book:Lifestyle Evangelism: Learning to Open Your Life to Those Around You

Source: Lifestyle Evangelism: Learning to Open Your Life to Those Around You

“To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.”

Christian Christianity Argument Performances Christian Inspirational

Author:Vance Havner

“News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.”

Way Has Beens States Church Television News Argument Separation Mediums Church And State Separation Between Church And State

Author:Leslie Moonves

“I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.”

Thinking Way Political Nations Dangerous Argument Treats Ideological Traitor Political Arguments

Author:Adam Michnik

“It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.”

People Ifs Doe Said Force Interesting Century Argument Claims Intelligent Surprise Terrorism Terrorist Surprising 21st Century Very Interesting Surprise Me Appease Spawn

Author:Meles Zenawi

“The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?”

“Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.”

People Sometimes Use Would Be Victory Argument Affair Unfortunate Good Will Contradicting

Book:Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

“I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.”

Ifs Art Names Wish Argument Endless

Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

“There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.”

Writing Believe Ends Bits Process Fiction Pieces Produce Argument Luck Nervous Controlled Worthwhile Breakdown Nervous Breakdown

Book:Writing: A User Manual: A practical guide to planning, starting and finishing a novel

Source: Writing: A User Manual: A practical guide to planning, starting and finishing a novel

“I think Martin Luther correctly distinguished between what he called the magisterial and ministerial uses of reason. The magisterial use of reason occurs when reason stands over and above the gospel like a magistrate and judges it on the basis of argument and evidence. The ministerial use of reason occurs when reason submits to and serves the gospel…. Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.”

“You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.”

Ideas Force Challenges Argument Opposing Best Love

Author:Charlie Munger

“If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.”

Ifs Knows Men Two Four Argument Repeats

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.”

May Doe Shows Belief Ability Argument Climate Rational Abandoned

Author:Austin Farrer

“Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.”

Stories Shows Seems Belief Easy Fiction Study Shapes Intellectual Evidence Argument Moved Critical Nonfiction Skeptical Shields

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.”

May Doe Belief Argument Climate Rational

Book:The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis

Source: The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis

“The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.”

School America Equal Fairs Argument Pursuit Minorities Fund Scholarship

Author:William H. Gray III

“I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.”

Thinking Littles Stills Film Quality Highest Argument Available Nostalgia Mediums Get Better Digital Capture Ghetto

Author:Rian Johnson

“Scientists and theologians can’t offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible, and scientists quote other scientists. How do either scientists or theologians answer this question about the accuracy of their conclusions: “In reference to what?”

Kind Answers Offers Argument Scientist Believer Conclusion Theologian Accuracy

Author:Frank Schaeffer

“Scholarship is polite argument.”

Knowledge Argument Polite Scholarship

Author:Philip Rieff

“It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.”

Made Duty Argument Responsible Lawyer

Author:Lloyd Cutler

“Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.”

World Bits Violence Keys Argument Claims Defense Driven Ideology Around The World Britain Oppressed

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Islam extremists than they might like to think, for it's the very same argument of course advanced by Al-Qaida. And they do have it wrong. We need to work with mainstream Islam.”

Thinking Needs Might Courses Common Argument West Islam Als Mainstream Extremist

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.”

Years Purpose Study Issues Football College Higher Argument Primaries Convincing Higher Education College Football

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

Belief Freedom Liberty Capitalism Economics Argument Libertarian Libertarianism Free Market Market Economy Economic Freedom Free Market Capitalism Free Economy

Book:Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.”

Ifs Believe Real Fighting Argument Don't Believe Tension Real Relationship

Author:Richard LaGravenese

“Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.”

People Made Different Principles Possibility Theory Capable Argument Observation Different Peoples Objectivity Checking Out

Author:Jose Padilha

“Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.”

Looks Challenges Argument Reputation Profundity

Author:Rene Descartes

“It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.”

Seems Eye Imagination Deals Argument Ears Abstract Heels Packs Muse Plato Battered Kettles

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to believe in anything despite the complete lack of evidence is, in fact, irrational.”

Believe Facts Religion Atheism Evidence Argument Despite Compelling Irrational Compatible

Author:Massimo Pigliucci

“The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of nature free from the hand of man. The argument gets at the heart of what the loss of nature will mean to us....God seems to be insisting that we are not the center of the universe, that he is quite happy if it rains where there are no people - that God is quite happy with places where there are no people, a radical departure from our most ingrained notions.”

“Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.”

Ifs Way Ideas Ends Eye Fighting Winning Argument Ultimate Blind Best Way Conclusion Old Ideas Eye For An Eye

Author:Sterling W Sill

“LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.”

Causes Lord Argument Army Noble Stanley Parliamentary Valour

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

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