"A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow."

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"A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow."

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"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."

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"Dancing is the poetry of the foot."

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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."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months."

Peter Scott, English Artist

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"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."

Susan Griffin, American Writer

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"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."

James Boswell, Scottish Lawyer

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"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."

E. T. Bell, Scottish Mathematician

Argument, Proof

"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Argument, Word, Meaning, Interpretation

"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."

Robert Benchley, American Comedian

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"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."

Francis Beaumont, English Playwright

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"For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught."

Roger Bacon, English Philosopher

Argument, Arguments, Fire, Man

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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."

"I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months."

"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."

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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."

"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."

"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."

"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."

"For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught."