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

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

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand."

Cardinal De Retz, French Clergyman

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"Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?"

Robert Walpole, British Statesman

Argument, Countries, Country, Europe

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."

Colin Powell, American Statesman

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"A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow."

John Dryden, English Poet

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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

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"Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue."

Charles Simmons, American Author

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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."

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

"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

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

"Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand."

"Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?"

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."

"A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow."

"In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number."

"Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue."

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"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

"Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly."

"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

"They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases."

"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden."

"Attention to health is life greatest hindrance."

"What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there."

"There is no such thing as a lovers' oath."