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

Argument, Word, Meaning, Interpretation

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"That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting."

Studs Terkel, American Journalist

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"Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument."

Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer

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"Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad."

Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer

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"Neither irony or sarcasm is argument."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry."

Jim Fowler, American Scientist

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"When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners."

Richard Carlson, American Author

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"If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments."

Herbert Prochnow, American Banker

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"For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught."

Roger Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations."

James L. Buckley, American Politician

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"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

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"Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good."

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"That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting."

"Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument."

"Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad."

"Neither irony or sarcasm is argument."

"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."

"The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry."

"When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners."

"If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments."

"For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught."

"Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations."

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"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."

"Democracy passes into despotism."

"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

"Science is nothing but perception."

"The wisest have the most authority."

"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

"Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good."

"Philosophy begins in wonder."

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."