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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."
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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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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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"In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number."
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"We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself."
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"To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind."
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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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"This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing."
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"At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat."
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"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."
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"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."
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"In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect."
Food
"There is no real wealth but the labor of man."
Wealth
"Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker."
Money
"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted."
Death
"Soul meets soul on lovers' lips."
Soul
"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
Influence
"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."
Darkness
"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
Pleasure
"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay."
Government
"We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
Thought
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