“As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.” WayGivingMindBalanceArgumentWeightPressesScalesYieldDemonstration Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.” IfsWould BeCoursesStuffGrowthChangedBalanceArgumentPopulationDenialAtmospherePopulation GrowthAstounded Author:David Attenborough
“I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is good because of a check and a balance. What I believe happens all too often, regardless of which party is there's gridlock. And I think the better argument is give one party a chance, give them a chance with a House and a Senate and a president. Give them a few years to see what they can do. And if you don't like it, put another party in.” IfsThinkingGivingYearsBelieveHas BeensIdeasGovernmentHappensHouseI BelievePresidentCan DoChancePartyBalanceArgumentChecksDividedGood IdeasSenateSplitsConventionalConventional WisdomGridlockDivided Government Author:Scott Walker
“The argument culture urges us to approach the world-and the people in it-in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition over-weighted.” PeopleWorldWayMindDoneCultureBalanceConflictApproachArgumentScalesBest WayAssumptionOppositionUrgesAgreementCooperationFrame Of Mind Author:Deborah Tannen
“What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half.” InterestHalfLike YouBalanceArgumentSublimeOther HalfGrotesque Author:Zadie Smith
“I'd love if people relearned the lessons of the 20th century all over again. Which is to say this country progressed economically and socially when we had a better balance between capital and labor. Neither capital or labor won every argument. The battle between the two created economic tension, and transformed the working class into the middle class, and grew the economy.” PeopleCountryEconomyEconomicBalanceBattleArgumentLaborTensionMiddle ClassWorking Class20th Century Author:David Simon
“On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.” BelieveI BelieveWealthBalanceArgumentAustraliaFundSovereignWeighing Author:Malcolm Turnbull
“Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.” SelfPastFormArmsBalanceArgumentVictimExcuseCommitRemoveAtrocitiesPredatorNo ExcusesPerpetuatingRectifyAtrocities Committed Author:Frank Herbert