"A day without an argument is like an egg without salt."

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"A day without an argument is like an egg without salt."

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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."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Argument, Man

"To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus."

Al Franken, American Comedian

Argument, Conservative, Liberal, Media

"My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem."

John Sayles, American Director

Argument, Democracy, Film, Wrong

"Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits."

E. P. Thompson, British Historian

Argument,

"I'm not an idiot, Kenji. I have reasons for the things I say."Yeah, and maybe I'm just saying that you have no idea what you're saying."Whatever."Don't whatever me-"Whatever, I say again."Oh my God, Kenji says to no one in particular. "I think this girl wants to get her ass kicked."You couldn't kick my ass if I had ten of them.Kenji laughs out loud. "Is that a challenge?"It's a warning, I say to him."Ohhhhhh, so you're threatening me now? Little crybaby knows how to make threats now?"Shut up, Kenji."Shut up, Kenji, he repeats in a whiny voice, mocking me."

Tahereh Mafi, Iranian Author

Argument, Conflict, Humor, Dialogue, Personality

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

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Argument, Violence

"It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us."

Al Sharpton, American Politician

Argument, Commitment, Day

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right."

Lord Hailsham, British Politician

Argument, Being, Right

"We must reinforce argument with results."

Booker T. Washington, American Educator

Argument, Results

"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

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"Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions."

Ambition

"In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world."

Age

"What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?"

Marriage

"I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates."

Self-Perception

"Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome."

Movies

"The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick."

Experience

"Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production."

Dream

"Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody."

Fool

"If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?"

Blame

"Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them."

Family