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“As much as the social conservatives might not like to hear it, there will be a time when your grandchildren say: 'What was the argument with gay marriage? Who cares?'”

Might Care Social Gay Argument Grandchildren Who Cares Gay Marriage

Author:Jim Kolbe

“No sort of defense is needed for preaching outdoors, but it would take a very strong argument to prove that a man who has never preached beyond the walls of his meetinghouse has done his duty. A defense is required for services within buildings rather than for worship outside of them.”

Men Done Strong Christianity Building Duty Wall Needed Prove Worship Argument Defense Very Strong Preaching

Author:William Booth

“The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principals. Nor is it offered as a philosophy of life. Christianity is a witness to certain facts; to events that have happened, to hopes that have been fulfilled, to realities that have been experienced, to a Person who has lived and died and been raised from the dead to reign forever.”

“...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is a gross violation of the cherished value of political equality. At the same time, it does not protect the interests of small states or racial minorities, nor does it serve as a bastion of federalism. Instead the Electoral College distorts the presidential campaign so that candidates ignore most small states - and many large ones - and pay little attention to minorities.”

“Strawberries that in gardens grow Are plump and juicy fine, But sweeter far as wise men know Spring from the woodland vine. No need for bowl or silver spoon, Sugar or spice or cream, Has the wild berry plucked in June Beside the trickling stream. One such to melt at the tongue's root, Confounding taste with scent, Beats a full peck of garden fruit: Which points my argument.”

Source: Country Sentiment

“Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible”

Men Writing Facts Law Political Voice Support Impossible Fine Argument Remains Witty Every Man Brutal Monarchy Plausible

Author:Mark Twain

“I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with their heartfelt and beautifully expressed mathematical arguments are all the results I need.”

Needs Eye Care Together Science Results Students Argument Mathematics Educational Math Mathematical Heartfelt Measuring Twinkling

Author:Keith Devlin

“There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.”

Way Writing Wells Book Enemy Argument Defeat One Way Sunset Good Book Defeating The Enemy

Book:Saul Bellow: Letters

Source: Saul Bellow: Letters

“One can never win an argument with ignorance.”

Winning Ignorance Argument

Author:Wes Fesler

“The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and diversities of the universe.”

Doe Science Universe Causes Theory Diversity Argument Inequality Explanation Supporter Transmission Hereditary

Book:Vedanta Philosophy

Source: Vedanta Philosophy

“Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are reduced to apodictic judgments that such and such conclusions follow from such and such premises, and method is reduced to judgments that prescribe the procedure that should be followed in the search for truth.”

Should Two Ideas Truth Judgment Argument Logic Method Conclusion Latter Divided Examination Procedures Premises Search For Truth

Author:Andre-Marie Ampere

“I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.”

Giving Truth Age Advice Argument Scientist Conviction Intensity Hypothesis

Book:Advice to a young scientist

Source: Advice to a young scientist

“The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the C.D.A., interrupt that conversation. As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion.”

“Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and may calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.”

Should May Science Sides Chance Cases Imagine Events Design Argument Luck Competition Notion Productions Dues Comparison Probability Owing

Author:Abraham de Moivre

“This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the extent of the powers of the Mind; and has at once shown what are the Principles of Natural Philosophy, and so far derived from them their consequences, that he seems to have exhausted his Argument, and left little to be done by those that shall succeed him.a”

“It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth.”

Wells Truth Science Wish Freedom Answers Support Prove Authority Argument Weight Rely Sincere Questioning Proven Absurdity Assertion Scientific Method Search For Truth Adulation

Author:Vincenzo Galilei

“The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.”

Writing Religion Christianity Atheism Argument Designer

Author:John E. Jones III

“Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one.... Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument.”

“Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make him understand that confessing an error which he discovers in his own argument even when he alone has noticed it is an act of justice and integrity, which are the main qualities he pursues; stubbornness and rancour are vulgar qualities, visible in common souls whereas to think again, to change one's mind and to give up a bad case on the heat of the argument are rare qualities showing strength and wisdom.”

“...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The demand for certainty will inevitably be disappointed, leaving skepticism in command of almost every issue.”

Trying Matter Belief Sound Issues Demand Argument Philosophical Leaving Absurd Command Certainty Disappointed Skepticism

Author:J. L. Mackie

“Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was presented as an argument is really a rationalization. This can undermine our confidence in the original method or practice only by giving us reasons to believe something else, so that finally we have to think about the arguments to make up our minds.”

Thinking Giving Mind Believe Ends Reason Challenges Results Practice Example Argument Universal Philosophical Originals Method

Book:Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994

Source: Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994

“Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.”

Said Religion Prove Argument Versions Conclusion Verdict

Book:The Nature of Necessity

Source: The Nature of Necessity

“You must have a training routine so that what you do happens automatically. If I got up in the morning and thought about going for a run there would often be a number of possible arguments against it. The thing is to get out and run. Later you can wonder whether you should have or not.”

Ifs Should Happens Running Numbers Wonder Morning Training Argument Should Have Routine Inspirational Sports Often Is Motivational Running

Author:Robert de Castella

“It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by the mind itself, for its own protection, continuation and expansion. It is the blank refusal to consider the convolutions and convulsions of the mind that can take you beyond it.”

Mind Wisdom Spiritual Argument Protection Endless Blank Expansion Deceived Refusal Continuation

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.”

Process Natural Views Study Students Evolution Argument Accounts Paid Data Preserves Experts Fancy Selection Fossils Natural Selection Stasis

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of [creationist] arguments without the help of an army of consultants in special fields.”

Ifs Helping Individual Community Doubt Special Fields Evolution Argument Army Range Consultants Creationist

Author:David M. Raup

“Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this has led to scientific ideas...being advanced with a tenacity which so exceeds their intrinsic worth that one can only suspect the operation of psychological forces lying very much deeper than the usual academic desire of a theorist to support his or her theory.”

Ideas Bigs Lying Desire Force Support Theory Evolution Argument Atheist Obvious Deeper Psychological Operations Suspects Usual Academic Physicist Bangs Exceed Tenacity Theism Theorists

Author:Christopher Isham

“Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation of life are so tiny as to require a 'miracle' for spontaneous generation tantamount to a theological argument.”

Wells Generations Evolution Argument Miracle Notion Contrary Tiny Rely Spontaneous Probability Formation Theological Creationism

Author:Chandra Wickramasinghe

“As a child, I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, 'Mrs. Stewart, you must've done something to provoke him.' 'Mrs. Stewart, it takes two to make an argument.' Wrong. Wrong! My mother did nothing to provoke that - and even if she had, violence is never ever a choice that a man should make. Ever.”

Ifs Men Should Children Two Done Home Mother Choices Powerful Violence Heard Argument Doctors Provoking Violence Against Women Ambulance Stop Violence Against Women

Author:Patrick Stewart

“My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years.”

Years Parent Marriage Couple Argument

Author:Cathy Ladman

“Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.”

Ideas Hard Home Causes Half Shapes Argument Balls Rounds Handle Phrases Concrete

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.”

Giving Looks Doe Reason Facts Evil Trust Taste Bird Argument Opposites Be Good Odd No Reason Prey Lambs Birds Of Prey

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.”

“Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected by the negativities of constant objections. Certainty(al-yaqin) does not derive from the evidences of the mind but pours out from the depths of the heart.”

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Author:Ibn Arabi

“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.”

“Access to supercomputers. The science is well ahead of our ability to implement it. It's quite clear that if we could run our models at a higher resolution we could do a much better job-tomorrow-in terms of our seasonal and decadal predictions. It's so frustrating. We keep saying we need four times the computing power. We're talking just 10 or 20 million a year-dollars or pounds-which is tiny compared to the damage done by disasters. Yet it's a difficult argument to win.”

“The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is merely an argument that may be convincing to some people who don't know anything about nuclear weapons. I don't find that argument very credible, I'm not sure that people who make it even believe in it. But it's a good argument to make if you have no other argument to make. The fact of the matter is, Iran has been around for 3000 years, and that is not a symptom of a suicidal instinct.”

“Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example - of fashion.”

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Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”

Humans Politics Natural Dangerous Truth Is Conflict Weapons Argument Errors Debate Sufficient Antagonist

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.”

Should Writing Novel Emotional Argument Crafts

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind.”

“For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.”

Kissing Argument Ears Memorable

Author:William Shakespeare

“The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.”

Firsts Children Age School Hours Democracy Argument Labor Continuing Minimum Raising Children Voting And Democracy Working Long Hours

Book:The Child and the State: Legal status in the family. Apprenticeship and child labor

Source: The Child and the State: Legal status in the family. Apprenticeship and child labor

“The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.”

Men Has Beens War Civilization Argument Farce

Author:Charles E. McKenzie

“All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. But if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. You can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. But fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level.”

“Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.”

“Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.”

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Author:Stephen Colbert

“What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.”

Ifs Believe Seems Faith Evidence Argument Absence Rational Despite If You Believe

Author:Peter Singer

“One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.”

Problem Language Common Learning Teaching Argument Explanation Barriers Classroom Problem Solving Vocabulary Inquiry

Book:Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds

Source: Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds

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