"Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments."

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"Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments."

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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."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson."

Brit Hume, American Journalist

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"We must reinforce argument with results."

Booker T. Washington, American Educator

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"A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good."

Rowan D. Williams, British Archbishop

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"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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"If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument."

George Henry Lewes, English Philosopher

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"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."

Robert Benchley, American Comedian

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"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak."

William Godwin, English Writer

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