Arguing Quotes
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People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that all philosophical intuitions about what nature is going to do fail.
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Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes.
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When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.
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My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything, and they don't drink all your beer.
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For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo music.'
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There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
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Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union
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When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
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In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.
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I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street.
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a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.
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I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify.
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Don't worry," I repiled, "I usually don't argue with the voices.
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A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.
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Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?
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At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way my father could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.
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Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.
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I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense.
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[ John F.Kennedy's friend] Chuck Spalding at the wedding said Jack was two guys: the groom and somebody else observing from a distance. ... It must have been maddening to be married to a guy like that, but you could at the same time argue that characteristic kept the world from being blown up.
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We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.
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I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!
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For millennia mankind has believed that nothing can come out of nothing. Today we can argue that everything has come out of nothing. Nobody has to pay for the universe. It is the ultimate free lunch.
