William Chillingworth Quotes

Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.

William Chillingworth

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• 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
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• Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• 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.

  

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• I want a girl who's passionate, driven - a girl who believes in herself.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• 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
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• When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• I am passionate about swimming, which I try to do at least five times a week.

  

  Vikram Patel
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• Do what you're passionate about.

  

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

  

  Baltasar Gracian
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• I'm not going to do anything crazy, but I want to do music that I'm passionate about. I'm finally at an age where I can do the music that I grew up loving, which was urban pop, '90s music. I grew up listening to the divas, so I'm very happy to finally do urban pop. I hope that it's received well, and it has been so far.

  

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• Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
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• History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

  

  Andrew Marr
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• A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.

  

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• Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired.

  

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• As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.

  

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• For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.

  

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• The people who lost the elections do not want to admit that they really lost, that the one who won was closer to the people and better understood what ordinary voters want. They are absolutely reluctant to admit this, and prefer deluding themselves and others into thinking it was not their fault, that their policy was correct, they did all the right things, but someone from the outside thwarted them. But it was not so. They just lost and they have to admit it.

  

  Vladimir Putin
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• I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
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• Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.

  

  William Chillingworth
  • Argument
  • Passionate
  • Assertion