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“The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.”

Has Beens Failing Influence Argument Dues Purity Consideration

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

“[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.”

Two Three Hours Laughing Failing Subjects Argument Tables Endless Phrases Fists Noticing Banging Wranglers

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing.”

Giving Mean War Use President Failing Argument Chaos Disorder Prolonging

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner.”

People Knows Way Want Trying Years Long Ideas Opportunity Failing Products Hero Argument Advertising Long Ago Premises Believable When All Else Fails Disingenuous

Author:Errol Morris

“I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.”

Strong Emotion Failing Particular Grew Grew Up Argument Rage Scales Display Despised Strong Emotions

Author:Koren Zailckas

“We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion.”

Source: A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England