"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."

Argument, Debate, Opinion, Time, Wisdom

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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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"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

Argument, May, Worth

"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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"I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message."

Anthony Holden, British Journalist

Argument, Blame, Old, Popular

"Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public."

David Herbert Donald, American Historian

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"Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all."

Richard Attenborough, English Actor

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"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

Margaret Thatcher, English Leader

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"Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them."

Thomas Dekker, English Dramatist

Argument, Arguments, Children

"Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad."

Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer

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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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"Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will."

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"The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive."

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"There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan."

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"The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth."

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"Maybe if you allowed me to blow off some steam, I wouldn't have been so frustrated when I had to find higher order fucking derivatives."

Frustration

"I took her word and didn't let my concern for my future ruin the present moment."

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"It's easy to give up at the beginning of something, but after gaining a bit of momentum it's not as tempting or easy to just give up."

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