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"A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow."
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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."
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"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."
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"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."
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"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."
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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."
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"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side."
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"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."
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"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."
Genius
"By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man."
Education
"The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one."
Family
"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide."
Philosophy
"Love is not in our choice but in our fate."
Love
"Repentance is but want of power to sin."
Power
"Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue."
Love
"Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun."
Beauty
"God never made His work for man to mend."
Work
"Self-defence is Nature's eldest law."
Nature
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