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“If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.”

“The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been so much wealth built up that we really can feel spending for some time.”

Ifs Feels Has Beens Wealth Built Argument Sake Financial Spending Unprecedented

Author:Adam LaVorgna

“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.”

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Book:Crowded years: the reminiscences of William G. McAdoo

Source: Crowded years: the reminiscences of William G. McAdoo

“Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.”

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Author:George Burton Adams

“Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.”

Realizing Atheism Argument Bases Atheist Uncertain

Author:Alister E. McGrath

“Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind. God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.”

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Book:God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

Source: God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

“It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but on all war-everywhere. And it's great to have such beautifully crafted arguments about why war is not inevitable and how war contributes to so many other global ills. This coalition is worthy of Martin Luther King's call to end violence and instead put our energies and resources into 'life-affirming activities.' Bravo!”

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Author:Medea Benjamin

“Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.”

Sides Dark Clear Argument Dialogue

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.”

“It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments”

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Book:Spurgeon's Sermons: Being Twelve of the Most Memorable Sermons Ever Delivered

Source: Spurgeon's Sermons: Being Twelve of the Most Memorable Sermons Ever Delivered

“Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.”

Prayer Fields Return Victory Promise Argument Speed Thee Thyself Fervent

Author:William Gurnall

“If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.”

Ifs Whole Law Fall Pieces Violence Argument Non Violence Non Violent

Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.”

Prayer Promise Argument

Book:The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War

Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War

“People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.”

People Fear Atheism Argument Rage Arguing Quarrels

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear arguments about theological issues that few people care about.”

People Care Today Church Prayer Answers Issues Praying Argument Manifestation Theological Fervent Church Today

Book:Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People

Source: Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People

“The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.”

Should Trying Argument Clever Quarrels Spoil

Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.”

Should Past Evil Justice Diversity Argument Social Justice Persuasive

Author:William H. Hastie

“We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.”

People Men Children Racism Negative Determination Argument Determined Engaged Protest Be A Man

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.”

Heart Left Term Grief Behinds Argument Suicide Release Awful Suicidal Left Behind Famine

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.”

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Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

“If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to avoid a war, I would answer as I did before: that you should never let things get out of hand in order to avoid war. You don't avoid such a war, you merely postpone it, to your own disadvantage.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“During the sole argument we had when [Chelsea] was in high school, the subject of which I don't even remember, I looked at her and said, 'As long as you're in this house, being president is my second most important job'.”

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Author:William J. Clinton

“Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.”

Found Understanding Argument Mathematical Statistics Obliged Found You

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .”

Answers Silence Argument Critics Indifference

Author:Gioachino Rossini

“We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.”

Believe War Enough Peace Argument Familiar Anti War Antiwar No War

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)

“You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.”

Needs War Use Peace Violence Argument Anti War Antiwar

Author:Noam Chomsky

“My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."”

Used Father Voice Morning Argument Raises Shouting Raise Your Voice

Author:Desmond Tutu

“I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's us; An' they call us Her Majesty's Engineers, With the rank and pay of a Sapper!”

Perfect Pay Argument Army Engineers Majesty Sappers

Book:The Seven Seas

Source: The Seven Seas

“That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.”

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Author:John Stuart Mill

“An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.”

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Author:Andre Gide

“We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example, by insistence on fair play wherever we have the power to do so. The rest is in the hands of the Lord, or nature, which swings, apparently, from one extreme to another.”

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Author:Theodore Dreiser

“Argument is the worst sort of conversation.”

Wisdom Language Opinion Worst Communication Conversation Argument

Book:The Sayings of Jonathan Swift

Source: The Sayings of Jonathan Swift

“There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.”

Thinking Men Opinion Argument Every Man Convincing

Author:E. W. Howe

“Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.”

Stupid Argument Stupidity

Author:Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

“If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?”

People Ifs Turns Lost Religious Wonder Christianity Honest Hundred Argument Drifting Away

Book:The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

“He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.”

Fun Argument Thread Staples

Author:William Shakespeare

“It's been said a thousand ways by hundreds of different people through the years, but is still as true as ever. If mamma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. Yellow H. Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.”

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Author:Gay Hendricks

“Let your life be your argument.”

Life Is Basketball Argument

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Every gay reader understands the secret self that is full and wonderful and has longing and tenderness and a desire for connection to other people. I think that arguments against gay marriage are just ridiculous! Who cares? People want to get married for the same reason I wanted to get married. They want to do it in front of their friends and family”

“If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves.”

Ifs May Church Sin Accepting Practice Members Authority Argument Destroyed Homosexuality Homosexual Hypocrite Homophobia

Author:Orson Scott Card

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

Source: Churchill By Himself

“Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by many to divide blacks and the gay community with the argument that the latter are seeking some imaginary special rights at the expense of blacks.”

Matter America Community Rights Special Gay Argument Victim Seeking Discrimination Despite Latter Lgbt Expenses Divides Imaginary Always Wrong Gay Community Rights In America

Author:Julian Bond

“The compelling argument is on the side of homosexuals. We're Americans. We just want to be treated like everybody else. That is a compelling argument. And to deny that, you've got to have a very strong argument on the other side. And the other side hasn't been able to do anything but thump the Bible ... I support civil unions, I always have. All right, the gay marriage thing, I don't feel that strongly about it one way or the other.”

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Author:Bill O'Reilly

“I have dumped a girl over the phone. It's terrible, isn't it? We got into an argument during a phone call, so I basically said, 'I don't wanna be with you anymore,' and she cried. I saw her after that and it was a bit awkward.”

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Author:Justin Bieber

“A good life is a main argument.”

Life Is Inspirational Life Argument Good Life

Author:Ben Jonson

“Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?”

Believe Religion Atheism Argument Atheist Proof Atheistic Shrines

Book:The Works of John Hookham Frere in Verse and Prose

Source: The Works of John Hookham Frere in Verse and Prose

“I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.”

Law Opinion Argument Abuse Bases Philosophical

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.”

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Author:Seneca the Elder

“It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.”

Ifs Hard Effects Argument Relation Cloning

Author:Leon Kass