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

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

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

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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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."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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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

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

John Tillotson, British Theologian

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

Sidney Blumenthal, American Journalist

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"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

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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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"I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months."

Peter Scott, English Artist

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"Observe which side resorts to the most vociferous name-calling and you are likely to have identified the side with the weaker argument and they know it."

Charles R. Anderson, American Scientist

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"The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible."

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

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

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"Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities."

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

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

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"Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure."

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