F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Afraid
  • Republican
  • Sides

• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Values

• Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Argument
  • Irony
  • Sarcasm

• I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • May
  • Unique

• The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Quality
  • Argument
  • Effective

• Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Forget
  • Will
  • Sides

• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Christian
  • Just
  • Argument

• Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Argument
  • Taught
  • Proof

• In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Battle
  • Sides

• There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Understanding
  • End
  • Argument

• I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Justice
  • Fire
  • Argument

• Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Different
  • House
  • Kind

• I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'

  

  Adam Driver
  • Why
  • Want
  • Argument

• It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Bad
  • Two
  • Sides

• Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Taken
  • Just
  • Argument

• If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Drama

• I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Great
  • Women
  • Lines

• Time heals everything. Sometimes you have to go through that pain and heartbreak so that you can get to the other side and come out on top.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Sometimes

• I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Up
  • Political
  • Single

• Chef cookin for me They say my shoe game crazy The mental asylum lookin for me

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Game
  • Crazy
  • Shoes

• When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness and pain, we can bring back up with us the sweetness of life and the exhilaration of inner growth. When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self - the self that is whole, the self that is enough, the self that no longer looks to others for definition, or completion, or anything but companionship on the journey.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Pain

• I actually think it's very important that the Navy SEAL community stay out of politics.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Think
  • Community
  • Politics

• From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Genius
  • Equality
  • Point

• Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Argument
  • Sides
  • Contradicting