Rick Perlstein Quotes
The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'Rick Perlstein
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I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.
Brown Campbell -
The love received is the love that is saved.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
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 -
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 -
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
E. T. Bell -
In 1998, I received treatment for my knee by an Israeli therapist. We spoke about Israel and I mentioned 'Scooterman' and he just froze. It was like he had met Elvis. I thought he was kidding me and then he called his brother, they yelled to each other over the phone, and then I believed him.
Gary David Goldberg
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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
Baltasar Gracian -
Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Katharine Hepburn -
If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it.
Andrew Breitbart -
Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.
Oscar Wilde -
A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.
Napoleon Hill
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A silly row which got out of hand.
Bill Vaughan -
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 -
He didn't train today, is receiving a lot of treatment and is still quite sore. I'm expecting an answer sometime tomorrow.
Ian Foster -
The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.
Plato -
The truth is always the strongest argument.
Sophocles -
Education is not received. It is achieved.
Albert Einstein
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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
Francis Bacon -
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
Nassau William Senior -
All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
Adolf Hitler -
I'm an 18-year-old boy, and I'm having fun. I'm just not having as much fun as people make out.
Harry Styles One Direction -
I hope you enjoyed your visit. You never know. You may want to join forever.
Ellen Schreiber -
The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'
Rick Perlstein