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

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

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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

Argument, Help

"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

"We must reinforce argument with results."

Booker T. Washington, American Educator

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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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"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

Argument, Arguments, Logic, Malice

"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

Argument, Reason

"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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"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."

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

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