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“I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society.”

Author:Milan Kundera

“There is some argument about who actually invented text messaging, but I think it's safe to say it was a man. Multiple studies have shown that the average man uses about half as many words per day as women, thus text messaging. It eliminates hellos and goodbyes and cuts right to the chase.”

Thinking Men Use Half Study Cutting Safe Argument Average Goodbye Multiple Average Man Text Messaging

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?”

Differences Argument Tests Making A Difference Theoretical You Make A Difference

Author:Johann Lamont

“I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.”

Writing Trying Years Stills Hard Mother Names Cases Husband Argument Thirds Died Lays Raised

Author:Anne Lamott

“Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.”

Life Life Is Practice Offers Argument Strongest Preacher Preaching Godly Discipleship Skeptic Godly Life

Author:Hosea Ballou

“A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.”

Whole Half Trust Argument Carrie Bricks Half Truth

Book:Leacock on Life

Source: Leacock on Life

“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”

Motivational Consciousness Enemy Judging Argument Philosophical Martial Arts Mastery Self Mastery

Author:Bruce Lee

“If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.”

Ifs Feels Speak Mass Argument Raises Height

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.”

Kids Winning Sports Lessons Losing Argument Best Things Teamwork Positively Rest Of Your Life Teammate Winning And Losing Learning Lessons

Author:Carl Lewis

“A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.”

Argument Soldier Oppression Oppressed Handful

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.”

Giving Sides Ability Speech Weakness Argument Claims Free Speech Misdirection

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”

Use Dream Argument Philosophical Reasoning Dreams And Aspirations Truth And Knowledge

Book:The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary

Source: The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary

“There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.”

Opinion Destiny Wind Argument Philosophical Available East Arguing Inevitable Grieving Pragmatism Overcoat

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.”

Language Style Communication Argument Fierce Versus Grammar Boxers Coke Macs Ibm Pepsi

Author:Jack Lynch

“If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.”

Ifs Matter Stuff Walks Members Argument Inner Peace Interfere Family Members

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.”

Thinking Made Sides Ability Mistake Argument Both Sides Wretched Ability To See Biggest Mistake

Author:John Major

“By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.”

Pain Fighting Three Father Hurt Couple Argument Heartache Heavenly Heavenly Father Fathers Day Love Hurt Hurting Each Other

Author:Barbara Mandrell

“Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.”

Should Children Language Parent Quiet Argument Tone Respectful Foreign Language

Book:Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

Source: Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

“The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.”

Knows Difficult Opinion Argument Arguing

Author:Andre Maurois

“A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.”

People Way Made Literature Views Mistake Kindness Argument Conviction

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.”

Mind May Reason Facts Opinion Atheism Fool Protect Argument Prejudice Conviction Kingdoms Providence Adversaries Merry Dominion Blithe

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.”

Beautiful Wife Argument My Wife Cute Funny

Author:John Barrymore

“The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.”

Kind Humor Funny Poor Common Poverty Crime Argument Prison Criminals Slander Crime And Criminals Criminals Crime

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”

Knows Giving Freedom Liberty Conscience Argument Give Me Arguing Censorship Freedom Of Speech First Amendment Freedom And Liberty Freedom Liberty Civil Liberties Freedom Of Expression Intellectual Freedom Freedom To Read Liberty Of Speech

Author:John Milton

“My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.”

Has Beens Crime Fit Argument Punishment

Author:Kevin Mitnick

“He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.”

Reason Shows Authority Argument Weak Anger Arguing Noise Command

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.”

Use Doors Expression Conversation Argument Mark Profound Italian Punctuation Punctuation Marks Italian Family Slamming Doors

Author:Mario Batali

“As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.”

Ideas Prove Argument Assuming Conclusion Agnostic Theologian

Author:Johann Most

“I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.”

Long Order Winning Loses Argument Discussion

Author:Rafael Nadal

“I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.”

Five Months Argument Bases Eight Release Hospitals Attempting Jersey New Jersey Involuntary

Author:John Forbes Nash

“But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.”

Knows Stills States Sex Crime Ten Argument Adultery Outlaw

Author:Liam Neeson

“I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.”

Literature Reader Argument Narrative

Author:Howard Nemerov

“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.”

Spirituality Existence Conditions Argument Philosophical Programming Absurdity Criminal Mind Irrationality

Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.”

Order Politics Understanding Personality Intellectual Argument Intelligence Arguing Sarcastic Love

Author:Pierre Beaumarchais

“One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.”

Opinion Argument Tone

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.”

“A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.”

Men Believe War Sides Virtue Stupid Argument Stupidity Bigotry Antiwar Flirting Bigots

Author:Joseph Addison

“I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same way. I kept getting in arguments about evolution and being bested. So I read Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of the Species,' a fantastic book that is not that difficult.”

Men Way Book Difficult Five Honest Evolution Argument Constitution Species My Favorite Fantastic Honest Man

Author:Denis O'Hare

“Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.”

Thinking Doe Country Reason Facts Seems Winning Right Now Tough Argument Scared Winning The Day

Author:Barack Obama

“Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?”

Way Mean Doe Sex Marriage Couple Gay Argument Harm Partners Allowing Diminish Gay Marriage Persuasive Marry Me Heterosexual Marriage

Author:Ted Olson

“I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.”

People Believe Long Stories Bigs Sports Heard Team Students Argument Don't Believe University Athlete Load Athletics Tedious Rail Sports Team Coronation Student Athlete

Author:Susan Orlean

“What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”

Giving Literature Atheism Fairs Argument Madness Intelligent Hearing Persist Lunatic Lunacy

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.”

Doe Lying Religion Advantage Argument Proof Priests Biblical Can Not

Book:The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

“Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.”

People Trying Kind Political Used Lines Red Argument Corners Red Lines Political Arguments

Author:Leon Panetta

“The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.”

Children Fall Grows Growing Up Argument Parenthood Falling Apart Convincing

Author:Tony Parsons

“Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.”

Truth Suffering Freedom Democracy Argument Heat Temper Defenders Opposers

Book:The Select Works of William Penn....

Source: The Select Works of William Penn....

“The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.”

Thinking Believe Government America Values Economic Models Argument Constitution Faults Core Cures Extras Disagree Premises Dose Core Values Economic Models

Author:Rick Perry

“If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.”

People Ifs Knows Used Wife Argument Spending Girlfriend Holiday Going Away

Author:Karl Pilkington

“People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.”

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