Argument Quotes
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
William Butler Yeats -
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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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 -
George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
Gary Coleman -
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
Barbara Deming -
AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
Calvin Klein -
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
Thomas Hobbes -
Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
E. T. Bell -
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 -
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Samuel Butler -
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Jack Benny -
Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.
Lao Tzu -
The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
Sam Brownback
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
Eddie Campbell -
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken -
It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing 'Fair Use' and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is.
Rachel Sklar -
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie -
There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.
Douglas Jerrold -
Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
Rafael Nadal -
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 -
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 -
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
Karl Popper