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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."
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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."
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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 one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."
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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."
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"The argument of the strongest is always the best."
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"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."
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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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Explore more quotes by David McCullough
"I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down."
Life
"I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals."
History
"To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life."
Life
"May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof."
Man
"With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that."
War
"People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works."
People
"I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber."
Work
"No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."
History
"In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know."
Time
"First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past."
Argument
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