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.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
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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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• This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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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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  • More
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• I am passionate about swimming, which I try to do at least five times a week.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Passionate
  • Swimming

• Do what you're passionate about.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • You
  • Passionate
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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.

  

  Ariana Grande
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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.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Up
  • Society
  • Pain

• No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.

  

  John Ruskin
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• I deal with my actors as if they were my friends and people I love. They want to make me feel good and make me happy, and I want to make them happy. We are not in a professional relationship, we are in a passionate relationship.

  

  Claude Lelouch
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  • Relationship
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• I like to live in places that are kind of off in the cuts so people can't really find me even if they wanted to.

  

  Ricky Williams

• Our games are not always the best, but they are exciting, which is what people love to see.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Love
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• Since strict obedience is demanded and harshly enforced, only the least talented, least articulate, least nuanced thinkers, least likely to take a stand against abuse, and the least courageous people thrive in the Church today.

  

  Kate Kelly
  • People
  • Church
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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