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

Argument, Arguments, Fact

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

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Janet Frame, New Zealander Novelist

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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 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."

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

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem."

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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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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."

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"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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