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“My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and Sandhurst type, thought it was 'unsportsmanlike' to do it. Never having been to a public school, I was unhampered by such considerations of form. I just pointed out that there was a bloody war on, and that I intended to avenge my pals.”

War School Form Type Habit Argument Mess Consideration Aviation Combat Officers Bloody Public School Attacking Pals Parachutes Eton

Author:James Ira Thomas Jones

“True gospel authority, the authority to heal and renew things and people, is not finally found in a hierarchical office, a theological argument, a perfect law, or a rational explanation. The Crucified revealed to the world that the real power that changes people and the world is an inner authority that comes from people who have lost, let go, and are re-found on a new level.”

People World Real Law Found Lost Perfect Levels Letting Go Office Authority Argument Heal Rational Explanation Theological Real Power

Author:Richard Rohr

“I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.”

Humans Certain Courses Practice Conditions Human Nature Argument Agree Unheard

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith.”

Life Character Challenges Teaching Fields Argument Killing Absence Lectures

Author:Sam Waterston

“If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.”

Ifs Want Important Sometimes Speak Argument Right Thing Keep Your Friends Close

Author:Jermain Defoe

“Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.”

Way Wells Ideas War Matter Done Evil Difficult Religious Theory Argument Killing Ireland Relativity Northern Ireland Theories Of Relativity

Author:Quentin Crisp

“The only argument this president needs to persuade Americans is that sacking Saddam is necessary for the security of America and the West, of civilization as we know it. All those other goals are nice, worthy even, but irrelevant to the job immediately at hand.”

Knows Needs War Hands Jobs America Goal President Nice Security Civilization Argument West Worthy Irrelevant Saddam Know It All Sacking

Author:Wesley Pruden

“The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday.”

People World Ideas Problem Past Force Imagination Teach Groups Tomorrow Civilization Argument Conservative Yesterday Linked Elders Other Worlds Fear Of Change

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.”

Evidence Argument Defined Secular Proven

Book:The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction

Source: The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction

“Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.”

People Ifs Men Trying Stills Might Turns Bits Path Personality Letting Go Argument Direct Balls Gestures Alleys Bowling Bowling Alleys

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“A sense of humor is an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny.”

Way Important Argument Important Things Best Way Sense Of Humor

Author:Ed Sheeran

“As we breathe and live, have a conversation, and you look in someone's eyes, and you see a sunset or have an argument or read a book or see a painting or whatever you do, it influences you. And as you live your art, it changes and grows just like you and your soul or whatever you want to call it. For me, it's never-ending, I call it "the organizer of chaos." That's what I do with this and I present it in a way that I dream. So basically, I'm just sharing my dreams with all of you.”

Way Want Looks Art Book Soul Dream Eye Grows Influence Painting Like You Conversation Argument Chaos Breathe Your Soul Sunset Never Ending Organizer

Author:Jared Leto

“I am passionate about truth and passionate about clarity, and I don't regard myself as particularly militant or aggressive. I simply wish to discuss what is true and to listen to evidence and put evidence forward to other people and have a sensible, sane, moderated argument.”

People Wish Evidence Argument Regard Passionate Clarity Aggressive Sensible Sane Militant

Author:Richard Dawkins

“There's an argument that celebrities stop growing mentally the moment they reach stardom and then they just - everything goes away. I think that's true.”

Thinking Moments Growing Argument Stardom

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very comfortable with where we're at. We're not dogmatic or impervious to a further argument, that's why we released it as an exposure draft rather than simply releasing it straight into the parliament.”

Thinking Real Speech Comfortable Racism Ordinary Argument Stronger Discussion Freedom Of Speech Parliament Exposure Maintaining Prohibition Dogmatic Impervious

Author:Tony Abbott

“People need to stand up, women need to stand up for each other and say, "No you can't kick this person like they're a dog. You can disagree with someone politically, you can have arguments, definitely privilege needs to be discussed in real productive and valid ways. But it's not real criticism if it's just like, "you're a disgusting bad person."”

People Ifs Way Needs Persons Real Dog Like You Argument Criticism Privilege Kicks Productive Disagree Disgusting

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I mean, obviously, one of the strongest arguments against evolution and selection of the fittest and progress, which is part of evolution, is the current field of the presidential candidates. We started off with Washington and Adams and Jefferson and then we had Lincoln, and now we moved ahead and look where we are now.”

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Author:William Kristol

“Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working.”

Knows Trying Long Seems Sun Married Long Time Argument Sense Of Humor Good Marriage

Author:Stephen King

“I often think people don't know what to think of me, and in fact this is precisely the objective of many of my creations. Even back in the days with Lady Starlight, my original partner, we aimed to bemuse. This feeling of bemusement - it's neither good nor bad. It just is. Whether critics realize it or not, they've been in a very long argument since my public birth.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“Philosophical progress changes what we take to be "intuitively" obvious, and this change covers up the tracks of the laborious arguments that preceded the changes. We don't see these changes, because we see with them.”

Progress Argument Philosophical Track Obvious Cover Ups

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you're angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.”

Said Bed Married Argument Angry Pinter Antonia

Author:Elton John

“As far as just my stand-up is concerned, I don't care about changing anyone's mind. I'm not making an argument. I'm a guy doing comedy.”

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Author:David Cross

“Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.”

Argument Favors Consumption Consumerism Overconsumption

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.”

Knows Moving Creative One Thing Conflict Argument Unhappy Exhausted

Author:Jack Nicholson

“In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.”

Ifs World Real Loses Effects Particular Argument Disappointment Disappointed Real World Autonomy

Author:Jack Nicholson

“There's a lot of people that I disagree with that I think I could have interesting conversations with. What I don't want to get into is manufactured conflict. I would much rather talk to someone like Dr. Rhonda Patrick or Randall Carlson and be mesmerized by information. I guess in a way that's selfish, or maybe not objective of me. The older (and hopefully wiser) I get the less interested I am in conflict. I don't mind disagreeing with people in a civil way, but I definitely don't want to go out of my way to have an argument unless it's a really important subject.”

“I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.”

People Play Conversation Argument

Author:Tom Stoppard

“A genuinely persuasive argument does not merely tell you that you are wrong about everything. It doesn't just beat on you from the outside. It comes inside your belief system, as it were, and affirms something you believe strongly. And then it says - well if you believe this (A) then why in the world can't you see that B is true?”

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Author:Timothy Keller

“Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.”

Literature Argument Bounds Definitions Quarters Provoking Hometown Opinionated

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“The new atheism as an old atheism, except it's much more aggressive. The new atheism wants to destroy religion. That's a very different thing. The arguments are not new, it's the aggression that's new.”

Want Different Atheism Argument Different Things Aggressive Aggression

Author:John Lennox

“Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.”

Argument India Hunger Driving Wheels Spinning

Book:The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

“The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.”

Way I Can Argument Patient Orthodox Bigotry Hinduism

Book:Hindu Dharma

Source: Hindu Dharma

“The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true.”

Mean Belief Religious Argument Difficulty Pragmatic

Author:John Warwick Montgomery

“If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really just taking a position for argument's sake.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Mean Position Argument Assuming Sake Libertarian

Author:Dave Barry

“That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.”

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Author:Paul McCartney

“Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war.”

Has Beens Made War Facts Able Opinion Conditions Argument Hatred Defense Suggestions Begets Preventive War

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I had come out of a church that was filled with petty arguments and hatred. I just wanted to meet with some friends and worship with them.”

Wanted Church Worship Argument Hatred Filled Petty

Author:Francis Chan

“Study hard. Understand not only the questions, but the questioner. Know how best to articulate the answers, but do it with humility, because ultimately the answer is in a person, the person of Christ, not in an argument. So, do your work and know how to present the answer, but do it with gentleness and meekness.”

Knows Persons Hard Christ Answers Know How Study Humility Argument Gentleness Meekness

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.”

Winning Effects Depends Argument Complicated Sophisticated Efficiency Free Market Demonstration Have Confidence Market Efficiency

Author:Milton Friedman

“Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.”

People Knows Made Stories Individual Powerful Brain Emotional Argument Connections Scientist Rational Storytelling Journalist Discovering Portal

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.”

Play Roles Empathy Argument Connections Rational Supportive

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.”

Ifs Years Country Grows Poor Half Talking Moral Percent Female Argument Population Arguing Finance Faster Ministers Harness Poor Countries

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“It's very difficult for you to speak out against your child, someone that's in your family. You can have an argument with them, but you can't condemn them. You can't cast them out, because God has not done that to us. We cannot do that to anybody else.”

Children Done Speak Difficult Argument Our Children Casts Our Family Your Children Speaks Out

Author:Otis Moss III

“Remember when we was young, everybody used to have these arguments about who's better, Michael Jackson or Prince? Prince won!”

Humor Funny Remember Young Used Argument Remember When

Author:Chris Rock

“I was stuck in traffic and I looked in the mirror and in the car behind me there was a couple having a horrible argument and right below their image it said "Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear". I just thought, man I hope so because she was pretty mad.”

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Author:Demetri Martin

“I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother them with a logical argument about something they have agreed to in society simplistically - like children are sacred, the cult of the child, this cult of professional parenthood, and of course religion, and respect for policemen and the law, and all of these untouchable areas. I like attacking those beliefs, but in with good sound thinking, and an unusual approach.”

“Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.”

Members Argument Vote Congress Casts Rejected

Author:Steve Israel

“We scientists can argue forever about important topics like slightly different flavors of vanilla ice cream. Consider the silliness of this debate: one group of scientists found a 90% decline of big fish and criticized fishery management. Some other scientists found an 80% decline and started a big argument with the 90% people. Who cares if it's 80% or 90%? The real question is whether it's OK to let fishermen take most of the big fish out of our oceans.”

“It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.”

Done Difficult Black Hero Argument Hollywood Haitian

Author:Jimmy Jean-Louis

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