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“The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.”

People Thinking Believe Matter Remember Form Numbers Support Judgment Argument Claims Arguing Discussion What Matters Listeners

Author:Kim Stanley

“I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.”

Long I Can Matter Reason Brain Argument Ignorant Rationale Brackets

Author:Richard Attenborough

“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”

Silence Argument Sake Atheist Stupidity Graves Plenty Spectators Mammals Unfairness God Is Not Great

Book:Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.”

People Form Quiet Spring Argument Curiosity Generosity Willingness Serenity Cheerful

Author:Alistair Cooke

“For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them.' Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that 'they' are the problem, not 'us.' But there can be no 'them' in America. There's only us.”

Long Problem America Political Argument Election Ads Slate Election Day

Author:William J. Clinton

“After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.”

May Mean Literature Silence Acceptance Argument Management Resistance Nasty Continuation

Author:Mason Cooley

“First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.”

Firsts Past Argument

Author:David McCullough

“I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.”

Would Be Lost Parent Roles Argument Casts Lawyer

Author:Jared Harris

“A real man wouldn't lay a finger on a woman. He treats his partner with respect, love and support. Men are physically stronger and have no place abusing that power. Everyone has problems, and arguments happen, but that's when a real man uses his intelligence to talk it out.”

Men Real Use Problem Happens Support Argument Treats Stronger Lays Fingers Partners Domestic Violence Real Men Support Me Love Respect

Author:Matt Lanter

“Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that.”

“My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'”

Used Dad Argument My Dad Folks Professors Folk Music

Author:Pete Seeger

“There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my daughter from elementary school and get into arguments with little children who would accuse me of betraying Han Solo.”

Children Littles Character School Used Picks Daughter Argument My Daughter Betray Solo Misunderstanding Elementary School

Author:Billy Dee Williams

“No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God. Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.”

Knows Believe Wells Matter Evolution Prove Argument No Matter What Response Believe In God

Book:Godless: The Church of Liberalism

Source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism

“If it were true that conservatives were racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, stupid, inflexible, angry, and self-righteous, shouldn't their arguments be easy to deconstruct? Someone who is making a point out of anger, ideology, inflexibility, or resentment would presumably construct a flimsy argument. So why can't the argument itself be dismembered rather than the speaker's personal style or hidden motives? Why the evasions?”

Ifs Self Politics Easy Style Stupid Argument Angry Ideology Motive Racist Resentment Righteous Speakers Constructs Fascists Sexist Self Righteous Personal Style Evasion Homophobic

Author:Ann Coulter

“It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.”

People Should Mean Done Hands Left Situation Depends Argument Should Have Slaughter Left Alone Wade Rwanda Bosnia Kosovo

Author:Jello Biafra

“What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no argument, that all scientists who aren’t cranks and charlatans are agreed on all this, that the consequences are uniformly negative, the issues beyond doubt and the steps to be taken beyond dispute.”

Government Steps Issues Taken Doubt Consequence Negative Argument Scientist Get Up Noses Disputes Guardian Charlatans Crank

Author:Michael Buerk

“What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth”

Mind Hard Desire Given Mouths Argument Wire Unstoppable

Author:Mary Jo Bang

“It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands of years. It is that we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption. Throughout the centuries the common thread in the arguments against eating animals is the fact that since we have no nutritional requirement for the flesh or fluids of animals, killing them to simply satisfy our taste-buds or habits or customs amounts to senseless slaughter, and senseless slaughter is no small thing.”

“Paul Davies takes us on a logically and rhetorically compelling modern search for human agency. This outstanding analysis, well informed by naturalistic views of our evolved affective nature, is the kind of philosophical work that is essential for a field to move forward when ever-increasing findings from modern science are inconsistent with traditional philosophical arguments. This book is for all who wish to immerse themselves in the modern search for free will. It is steeped in the rich liqueur of current scientific and philosophical perspectives and delusions.”

“It is not your right—based on YOUR traditions, YOUR customs and YOUR habits—to deny animals THEIR freedom so you can harm them, enslave them and kill them. Thats not what rights are about. Thats injustice. There is no counter-argument to veganism. Accept it. Apologize for the way youve been living. Make amends and move forward.”

Way Moving Animal Accepting Rights Habit Argument Tradition Injustice Deny Harm Moving Forward Customs Apologizing Veganism Amends

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“You certainly wouldn’t want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place.”

Want Firsts Believe Argument

Book:The Possibility of Resurrection and Other Essays in Christian Apologetics

Source: The Possibility of Resurrection and Other Essays in Christian Apologetics

“The man who cannot listen to an argument which opposes his views either has a weak position or is a weak defender of it. No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding. And it has been wisely said that the man who knows only half of any question is worse off than the man who knows nothing of it. He is not only one-sided but his partisanship soon turns him into an intolerant and a fanatic. In general it is true that nothing which cannot stand up under discussion or criticism is worth defending.”

Knows Men Has Beens Said Turns Views Half Opinion Position He Man Argument Criticism Weak Discussion Fanatics Defenders Partisanship One Sided

Author:James E. Talmage

“What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.”

Forget Argument Complexes Obvious Intuition Forget It Secured

Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an option. When you can't think of a good rebuttal for your opponent's argument, you can always punch them in the face.”

People Thinking Ideas Running Faces Simple Violence Argument Direct Available Attractive Opponents Good Ideas Rebuttal

Author:James S.A. Corey

“All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.”

Information Argument Treated Accurate

Author:Hiroyuki Nishimura

“The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is right. I want every single person arguing a righteous side of the argument. That makes interesting drama.”

Want Persons Sides Interesting Drama Argument Arguing Righteous Single Person

Author:David Fincher

“There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks”

Men Children Support Study Argument Absolutes

Author:Bob Geldof

“I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.”

Emotion Argument Invited

Author:W. C. Fields

“Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.”

World Believe War I Believe Causes Greater Trouble Argument Opposites Terror Interfere Saddam Hussein Opposing

Author:Dick Cheney

“One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.”

Men Has Beens Running Games Behinds Fans He Man Duty Argument Baseball Chiefs Department

Book:The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News

Source: The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News

“How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms”

Ifs Has Beens Term Argument Disputes Could Have Been Paragraph

Author:Aristotle

“Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.”

Mind May Doe Doubt Argument Method Experiments Remove

Author:Roger Bacon

“For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.”

Ifs Men Mind Hands Might Fire Saws Taught Argument Experiments Satisfied

Author:Roger Bacon

“A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.”

Literature Argument Eggs Salt

Book:Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings

Source: Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings

“The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts.”

Believe Lasts Christianity Listening Argument

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy Author of our religion...No man shall be compelled to frequent or support religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion. I know but one code of morality for men whether acting singly or collectively.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: His Words and Vision

“They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.”

Thinking Use Interest Violence Type Argument Britain Ireland

Author:John Hume

“When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing ... will win arguments and straighten people out.”

People Mind Persons Sometimes Winning Gun Argument Clicks

Author:Bill Cosby

“If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship, I don’t think that’s necessarily being anti-feminist. For me the argument of feminism never really should have come into the picture. Because I don’t know too much about the history of feminism, and so I’m not really a relevant person to bring into the conversation. Everything I was writing was so autobiographical, it could really only be a personal analysis.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Should Writing Persons Choices Enjoy Too Much Feminism Conversation Argument Should Have Feminist Analysis Relevant Anti Feminist

Author:Lana Del Rey

“As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.”

Humans Political Lying Politics Challenges Justice Argument Appeals Folly Reasonable Sympathy Persuasion Misunderstood Crocodiles Magnanimity

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.”

Ifs Form Argument Mislead

Book:Critique of pure reason

Source: Critique of pure reason

“I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.”

Roles Stage Ready Argument Extras

Book:Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994

Source: Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994

“What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like anyone else I make my inner journeys that I can only measure by my emotions, and express very obliquely and circuitously in what I write. ... Arguments from one's own privileged experience are bad and reactionary arguments.”

Ifs Knows Writing Believe I Can Given I Believe Emotion Journey Argument Sticks I Believe In Do You Know Privileged Secrecy Reactionaries Inner Journey

Author:Gilles Deleuze

“In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would not lose out in reasoned argument or be taken by surprise by their quick-witted opponents, they boldly moved into action. Their enemies,on the contrary, contemptuous and confident in their ability to anticipate, thought there was no need to take by action what they could win by their brains.”

Men Needs Action Winning Loses Ability Brain Enemy Taken He Man Argument Moved Surprise Contrary Opponents Anticipate Shortcomings Contemptuous Quick Witted

Author:Thucydides

“If you're worried about caribou, take a look at the arguments that were used about the pipeline. They'd say the caribou would be extinct. You've got to shake them away with a stick. They're all making love lying up against the pipeline and you got thousands of caribou up there.”

Ifs Looks Would Be Used Lying Argument Sticks Worried Shakes Making Love Pipeline

Author:George H. W. Bush

“The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.”

Mind Heart Argument Logic

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.”

Persons Winning Argument Bigots

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender”

Depends Argument Court Gender

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?”

Emotional Argument Logic

Book:Time for the Stars

Source: Time for the Stars

“They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.”

Happens Space Argument Flying Despite Protest

Author:Valentina Tereshkova

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