"Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument."

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"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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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."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Argument, Debate, Opinion, Time, Wisdom

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

Sidney Blumenthal, American Journalist

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"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 My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."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

"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."

Brit Hume, American Journalist

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"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."

James Russell Lowell, American Poet

Argument, Wind

"A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good."

Rowan D. Williams, British Archbishop

Argument, Media, Public, Talk

"That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting."

Studs Terkel, American Journalist

Argument, Debate

"In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it."

John Deacon, British Musician

Argument, Arguments, Day, Talk

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"The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words."

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"God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again."

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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."

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"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."

"A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good."

"That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting."

"In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number."

"I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it."

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"Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together."

"Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart."

"Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it."

"It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination."

"An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise."

"The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words."

"God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again."

"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus."

"Novelty is the great parent of pleasure."

"In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation."