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“Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.”

“The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.”

Has Beens Able Political Republican Argument Raised Congress Debt Spending Despite Score Ceilings Irresponsible Fallacy Approved Gop Debt Ceiling

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.”

Jesus Support Kings Argument Jew Superiors Followers Supposition Desertion

Book:The collected works of Lysander Spooner

Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner

“Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.”

Believe Helping Literature Given Sides Air Argument Breathe Propositions

Author:Gertrude Stein

“The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.”

Passion Race Habit Argument Intense Cautious Music Love

Author:Stendhal

“There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.”

World Has Beens Christian Literature Opinion Support Argument Scripture Absurd Sects

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, Etc

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, Etc

“Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.”

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Author:James Surowiecki

“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”

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Author:William Blake

“I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.”

People Thinking Used Mother Argument Chinese

Author:Amy Tan

“Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.”

People Opinion Argument Arguing

Book:The Works of Booth Tarkington

Source: The Works of Booth Tarkington

“Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.”

Achieve Argument Scripture Headache

Author:Tertullian

“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.”

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Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.”

Believe I Believe Wealth Balance Argument Australia Fund Sovereign Weighing

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.”

Knows Humor Talking Fool Argument Spoiled Contention Being Spoiled

Author:Miguel de Unamuno

“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.”

Memories Integrity Authority Argument Intelligence Patriotic

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.”

Knows Sides Weakness Argument Both Sides Motto Quarrels Nonviolent Communication

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)

“We must reinforce argument with results.”

Results Argument

Book:The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1903-4

Source: The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1903-4

“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.”

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Book:The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West

Source: The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West

“Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.”

Men Mind Holy Argument Various Command Obedience Urges

Book:Sermons on important subjects

Source: Sermons on important subjects

“The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”

People Wells Wisdom Wise Yoga Argument Contradiction Finding Yourself Contradicting Discovering Self Discovering Your True Self

Book:Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

“Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.”

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Book:The Happy Prince

Source: The Happy Prince

“Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.”

Seems Consequence Argument Dust Dry

Author:George Will

“A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.”

Common Media Argument Components Maintenance Common Good Flourishing Credible

Author:Rowan Williams

“'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.”

Book Earth Audience Creation Diversity Argument Saving Broads

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.”

Knowledge Learning Argument Management

Book:I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic

Source: I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic

“In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.”

Men Long Numbers Argument Odd Wheels Gambling Vegas Las Vegas Roulette Odd Numbers

Author:Steven Wright

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

Poetry Poet Argument Rhetoric Quarrels Make Out

Author:William Butler Yeats

“My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.”

Thinking Art Would Be Political Argument Good Art Political Art

Author:Thom Yorke

“Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.”

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Author:Julian Baggini

“The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.”

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Author:Julian Baggini

“I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.”

Believe Depends Argument Presenting

Author:Alain de Botton

“You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.”

Ifs Said Stuff Amount Areas Argument Smallest Maximum Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Impeccable

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.”

Needs Humans Ideas Conflict Argument Innovation Debate Good Ideas Interaction Ideas And Innovation Research And Innovation

Author:Margaret Heffernan

“The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex evolve?' This is not an argument, it is simply an affirmation of incredulity.”

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Book:The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

“It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.”

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Book:A Prayer For Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer For Owen Meany

“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”

“An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.”

Persons Argument Series Connected Statements Contradiction Definite Propositions

Author:Graham Chapman

“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.”

Men Past Mother Talking Mom Argument Drinking Alcohol Neat Gin

Author:C. S. Forester

“All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically”

Reason Religion Simple Argument Logical Defeated Refusal Logical Arguments

Book:Dreams of a Final Theory

Source: Dreams of a Final Theory

“I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion.”

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Book:Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.”

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Author:John Milton

“If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.”

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Book:Pnin

Source: Pnin

“I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.”

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Author:Charles Dickens

“When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.”

People Religion Our Lives Imagine Honest Integrity Intellectual Standards Evidence Areas Argument Engaged Logical Imagine That Considering Propositions Appraisal Logical Arguments

Book:Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.”

Art Might Form Lying Felt Understood Argument Inaccessible

Book:What Is Art?

Source: What Is Art?

“And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?”

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Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?”

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Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)