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

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

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

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Argument, Violence

"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Argument, Custom, Manners, Morals

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

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Argument, Word, Meaning, Interpretation

"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

Argument, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

"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."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Argument, Debate, Opinion, Time, Wisdom

"To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind."

John Tillotson, British Theologian

Argument, Mind, Reason

"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."

John Hume, Irish Politician

Argument, Ireland, Right

"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."

Sidney Blumenthal, American Journalist

Argument, Conservative, Economy, Weather

"In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort."

William Gilbert, British Composer

Argument, Arguments, Causes, Discovery, Investigation

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"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."

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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

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"Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage."

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"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."

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

"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."

"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."

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

"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."

"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."

"To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind."

"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."

"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."

"In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort."

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"Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves."

"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

"Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage."

"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."

"The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness."

"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."

"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

"There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened."

"The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar."