"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."

Argument, Custom, Manners, Morals

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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."

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

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 My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."

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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."

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"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

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

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"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."

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"It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet."

Nature

"She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects."

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"Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too."

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"She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct."

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"A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away."

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"She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath."

Power

"He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things."

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"Don't that make your bosom plim?"

Humor

"We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek."

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