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“As you can imagine, I have a deeply personal interest in people learning to at least be tolerant of homosexuals. My life depends on it. And as I wish to be left alone, I realize it is not in my interest to interfere with how other people choose to lead their lives, or raise their children. All totalitarian arguments that restrict people's freedom have been based in the "it's best for everyone" framework.”

People Children Has Beens Left Wish Interest Realizing Imagine Depends Argument Raises Interfere Homosexual Framework Left Alone Personal Interest

Book:The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values

Source: The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values

“Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will.”

Humility Battle Argument Rage Branches Apology Olives Axes Contrition Olive Branches

Book:Cast of Characters: Lost and Found: Encounters with the Living God

Source: Cast of Characters: Lost and Found: Encounters with the Living God

“The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.”

Art Two Church Christianity Argument Saint Womb

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“I had an argument with my students on why they want to present their work in an iBook, it's like your sister who has no design training, put on some outfits in the bedroom, took some pictures, sent them to Apple and after paying 40 quid, you have a portfolio! I can't believe it.”

Want Believe I Can Design Students Like You Training Argument Apples Bedroom Outfits Portfolios

Author:Louise Wilson

“I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well as argument-to a poem. But all my life, I've also been a person who's made his bed in the morning and picks up the bath mat. That's what I mean by temperament. Whether genetic or acquired, I have a disposition to arrangements. One is born with this, as if with blue eyes or a weak heart. Do you think Allen Ginsberg ever put the cap back on his toothpaste?”

“The argument culture urges us to approach the world-and the people in it-in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition over-weighted.”

People World Way Mind Done Culture Balance Conflict Approach Argument Scales Best Way Assumption Opposition Urges Agreement Cooperation Frame Of Mind

Author:Deborah Tannen

“The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax breaks to companies like Enron." True - although the bill allowed all companies to accelerate depreciation of copying machines. Yes, Enron benefited, but Enron also benefited from the revolution of the Earth around the sun. Hardly an argument to freeze the planet in one spot.”

Earth Lying Company Break Sun Planets Revolution Taxes Argument Machines Bills Spots Ads Johnson Freeze Congressman Copying Accelerate Tax Breaks Enron Depreciation

Author:James Lileks

“I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.”

Thinking May Whole Life Is Lying Wish Attitude Our Lives Evolution Argument Radical Falsehood Twisted Defenders Incline

Book:Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963

Source: Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963

“My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.”

Ideals Argument Citizenship

Book:The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Source: The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“If Clinton somehow pulls out a win in both states, then she has an excellent argument to make to the superdelegates: Voters still respond to fear. Obama's campaign has been based on the implicit argument that voters no longer respond to fear. If Clinton wins both states, that probably proves Obama wrong on that point.”

Ifs Has Beens Stills States Winning Prove Argument Clinton Campaigns Excellent Voters Implicit

Author:Cynthia Tucker

“Negative people are worse than negative occurrences. The argument is over in ten minutes - the person may hang around for years.”

People Years May Persons Minutes Ten Negative Argument Negative People

Author:Jeffrey Gitomer

“I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.”

Argument Ads

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Another priest said,"Is it true you've said you'll believe in any god whose existence can be proved by logical debate?""Yes."Vimes had a feeling about the immediate future and took a few steps away from Dorfl."But the gods plainly do exist," said a priest."It Is Not Evident."A bolt of lightning lanced down through the clouds and hit Dorfl's helmet. There was a sheet of flame and then a trickling noise. Dorfl's molten armour formed puddles around his white-hot feet."I Don't Call That Much Of An Argument," said Dorfl calmly, from somewhere in the clouds of smoke.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“It is true that infidelity cannot withstand the force of reason and argument; but true godly example can come nearer the lifespot of religion. It knocks at the door of the heart. If the truths of Christianity were seconded by the devoted and pious lives of all her professed disciples, the unbelief of the world would soon cease. Private example of godliness is what the world most needs.”

Ifs World Needs Heart Reason Force Christianity Doors Example Argument Cease Devoted Disciple Infidelity Godly Pious Godliness Unbelief

Book:A PASTOR'S SKETCHES

Source: A PASTOR'S SKETCHES

“It is true that there`s an economic argument and an economic feeling that something different needs to happen and politicians talking out of both sides of their mouth and all that kind of stuff.”

Needs Kind Different Feelings Happens Stuff Sides Talking Economic Politician Mouths Argument Both Sides

Author:Howard Dean

“I think the essence of the argument has always been, first of all, the Guild doesn't want writing on spec. And that's been a major problem over the years. But obviously, to the young writer that's unfair and it's discriminatory, and it can be very hurtful to one's career.”

Thinking Want Writing Years Firsts Problem Young Careers Majors Argument Essence Unfair Hurtful Young Writers Major Problems Guilds Specs

Author:Rod Serling

“I like to compare the first experiences of the Internet - the fortuitousness, the chance - with reality, with the experience, for example, of being in a city that you don't know. Many times - and I don't know if I can totally defend this argument - I've found that the way one experiences the world, and daily life, we are constantly dealing with these perceptions. And it seems like it works, this superficial perception of determinacy, but it's completely ridiculous.”

Ifs Knows World Way Firsts I Can Reality Seems Found Chance Cities Example Internet Perception Argument Ridiculous Compare Daily Life Superficial

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to talk myself out of writing, sometimes for many years, and when I run out of arguments, I write.”

Thinking Writing Trying Years Sometimes Running Serious Becoming Argument

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.”

Stills Earth Argument Corporations Scourge

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen`s Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like any other rights. There are limits on your free speech and on your right to privacy. But he also made another nuanced Constitutional argument, that the rights enshrined in the Second Amendment must be balanced alongside the others rights guaranteed by the Constitution.”

Made President Rights Citizens Limits Speech Argument Constitution Arguing Barack Privacy Amendments Balanced Free Speech Second Amendment President Barack Obama Right To Privacy

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the number of laws? Number of employees? You could make arguments for either one. I tend to think the axis of the size of government is the wrong concern. But I do think that situating power more locally is a legitimate approach.”

Thinking Mean Bigs Government Law Term Numbers Approach Concern Argument Size Locals Engaged Employee Axes Local Government Size Of Government

Author:Zephyr Teachout

“Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.”

Has Beens Made Enough Facts Nations Difficult Impossible Building Involved Argument Okay Iraq Focused Made It Afghanistan Get Involved Persuasive Nation Building

Author:Michael Hastings

“The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't.”

Should Choices Difficult Involved Argument Humanitarian Get Involved Selective

Author:Michael Hastings

“Ultimately, the current argument is "not having net neutrality will hurt innovation," and you can make that argument, but I would rather make the public good argument, which is not just about innovation or nurturing new companies that will add to the nation's GDP, it's actually about creating a democratic public sphere.”

Nations Hurt Company Creating Argument Innovation Add Democratic Currents Spheres Nurturing Neutrality Gdp Public Good Net Neutrality New Company

Author:Astra Taylor

“I feel like we're stuck in the former mode of reacting because that's what gains traction in Washington. But I really believe we need a robust public good argument. Net neutrality is not just about creating the next Instagram or Farmville or whatever.”

Needs Feels Believe Next Creating Gains Argument Stuck Former Instagram Reacting Robust Neutrality Public Good Traction Net Neutrality

Author:Astra Taylor

“As an individual navigating this reality, you have to make choices to survive. Sometimes you happily work for free if it's something you love and believe in. I'm not categorically saying that working for free is bad. I'm just looking at the broader implications of it, and also challenge this idea - and again, this is an argument made by certain people in the tech world - that amateurs are automatically more pure and will triumph over stodgy professionals.”

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Author:Astra Taylor

“Eliot said that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before you understand the argument that follows later in the text.”

Said Understanding Emotional Understood Argument Communicate Genuine Eliot

Author:Fred D'Aguiar

“Over the years, autism has almost been a diagnosis in the eye of the beholder, which allows for all kinds of arguments and dissension and theories and competing therapies to come into play.”

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Author:John Donvan

“Certainly Apple has improved enormously. At the beginning, the sampling rate was an issue for me, but a bigger argument was over digital rights, which I had.”

Issues Rights Argument Bigger Rate Apples Digital Sampling

Author:Gail Zappa

“As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were betraying the class struggle. There are many poignant writings in which feminists first write pages about their class standpoint before getting to their actual issue. What was then known as class warfare is today called anti-racism. The threat of being accused of racism gave birth to false tolerance.”

“I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.”

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Author:Rachel Kushner

“I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive seminars and no one has demolished it so far. I did think that this idea from an artisanal and trading perception of the auratic quality of goods when they are given character and inscription, made the stories of phantasmic wealth read more powerfully in the 18th and 19th centuries than the stories of Cinderella's wealth, because they are conjured out of nothing by these magic means.”

Thinking Mean Made Ideas Character Stories Given Wealth Quality Magic Century Perception Economics Argument Nonsense Massive Goods Thinker Trading 19th Century Marxist Inscriptions Seminars

Author:Marina Warner

“FAQ regarding my book were not about my use of commas or how the images went berserk, but about the political situation in Bosnia, about guilt and shame, about victims and perpetrators, about reasons, arguments and beliefs that led to the conflict in the first place, etc. All of this needed and still needs answering and ongoing discussions, but I mostly felt overwhelmed and unqualified to articulate anything worth more than personal experiences of the siege, of fear and refuge - all the things which I wrote about anyway.”

“You might argue on utilitarian grounds that the best way for the world to work is for everybody to take care of themselves first. And people have made that argument. But I just think we would be so much better off if we could care for distant others even a little bit more.”

People Ifs Thinking World Way Firsts Littles Made Might Would Be Care Bits Little Bit Argument Take Care Arguing Best Way Better Off Utilitarian

Author:Paul Bloom

“The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.”

Used Argument

Author:Paul Bloom

“Some people make a separate argument about the red light cameras. They say it just changes the type of crash that's most likely to occur at an intersection.”

People Light Type Red Argument Cameras Crash Intersections Red Lights

Author:Robert James Thomson

“It is clear that several countries, in the Balkans for example, need to be considered countries of safe origin. But others like, in my opinion, Eritrea, undoubtedly need to be considered a country of origin with a valid claim to asylum. And with a third group of states, like Nigeria for example, each individual case needs to be evaluated. Then there are also very controversial cases like Afghanistan. In any case, united European action is needed. This argument for Europeanization may sound utopian, but there is no alternative.”

“What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.”

Ifs Believe Persons Matter Winning Cases Integrity Argument Conviction Brilliant Chains Reasoning Convince Logical Elegant Advancing

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Nobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt.”

Argument Debt

Author:Danny Trejo

“I haven't seen - I haven't heard the arguments that would make that case. And I haven't seen a proposal yet that satisfies the objections. The problem is, you create a key like this, and it can't - it's hard to say that it's going to be hidden. And then it becomes used both by our government in multiple cases, but also it could get out as far as hackers are concerned or other countries.”

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Author:Angus King

“In brief, I regard love as a more decisive focus of meaning than death. In terms of Heidegger's argument, this is because I think he misdescribes the importance of the deaths of others and focuses exclusively on my relation to my own death. But, in reality, the deaths of others have a more urgent and immediate impact on our lives than the purely notional knowledge that I too will one day die.”

Thinking Reality Dies Term My Own Focus Our Lives One Day Argument Importance Relation Regard Impact Urgent Heidegger

Author:George Pattison

“I try to most effectively and persuasively present our argument, in a way that gives other people the information they need to decide, on the merits, the wisdom of the path that the president has advocated.”

People Way Needs Giving Trying President Path Information Argument Merit

Author:Josh Earnest

“Well obviously, when you're in a band you have to diplomatic about things. Everybody wants to put in their two cents and while sometimes it works, often times it also doesn't, and a lot of times it leads to arguments, like when there's too many cooks in the kitchen.”

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Author:Dino Cazares

“I don't believe in the theory that the United States is reducing its presence in the Middle East. Quite the contrary, in the Gulf, we see an increase in American military presence, as well as an increase in American investments. The argument is more accurate when one says America is focusing more attention to the Far East. But I don't believe it comes at the expense of the Middle East.”

“Listen- my relationship with radio on a personal level is nothing but a one way love-a-thon... I love radio, I grew up on radio. That's where I heard Buddy Holly, that's where I heard Chuck Berry. I couldn't believe it the first time I heard one of my records on the radio, and I STILL love hearing anything I'm involved with on radio, and some of my best friends were from radio. But we were on different sides of that argument, there's no question about that.”

“If there is such a simple argument for physicalism, how come everybody hasn't always been a physicalist? That's a good question, and there is a good answer. The 'causal completeness of physics' wasn't widely accepted until recently.”

Ifs Simple Answers Argument Accepted Physics Completeness Good Questions

Author:David Papineau

“Kripke says that physicalists like me can't explain the 'apparent contingency' of mind-brain identities. He maintains that, if I really believed that pains are C-fibres, then I ought no longer to have any room for the thought that 'they' might come apart. His argument is that, since pains aren't identified via some contingent description, but in terms of how they feel, I have no good way of constructing a possible world, so to speak, where C-fibres are present yet pains absent.”

Ifs World Way Feels Mind Might Pain Speak Term Rooms Brain Identity Ought Argument Like Me Description Absent Good Way Contingency

Author:David Papineau

“I didn't want my next U.S. senator to be someone who was going to go up there and do the same stuff people have been doing. But I guess our argument is it's okay to be angry and upset at Washington.”

People Want Has Beens Next Stuff Argument Okay Angry Upset Senators

Author:Marco Rubio

“I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.”

Want Persons Argument Bars Racist Homophobic

Author:Lissie

“With regard to testimony from various experts, there was pro and con. The argument was very articulately made that many provinces allow mature minors - minors capable of making the decision - to make decisions on their own treatment in very serious cases, including cancer. They are given the right to ask for medical treatment to be withheld, so long as they understand.”

Long Made Asks Given Decision Cases Serious Capable Argument Regard Including Cancer Various Medical Experts Treatment Mature Minors Testimony Provinces Medical Treatment Pros And Cons

Author:Kelvin Ogilvie

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