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

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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

"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Argument, Conviction, Sense, Will

"Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Argument, Help

"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."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Argument, May, Worth

"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

Argument, Conservative, Party, Republican

"We must reinforce argument with results."

Booker T. Washington, American Educator

Argument, Results

"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."

E. T. Bell, Scottish Mathematician

Argument, Proof

"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

"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

Argument, Arguments, Being, Fact, Party

"If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument."

George Henry Lewes, English Philosopher

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"Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace."

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"Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty."

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"Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character."

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"The surest plan to make a man is, think him so."

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"The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude."

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"On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women."

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"The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman."

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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."

"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."

"Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it."

"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."

"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."

"We must reinforce argument with results."

"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."

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

"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."

"If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument."

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"Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly."

"A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions."

"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

"Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace."

"Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty."

"Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character."

"The surest plan to make a man is, think him so."

"The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude."

"On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women."

"The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman."