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

Argument, Word, Meaning, Interpretation

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"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

"We must reinforce argument with results."

Booker T. Washington, American Educator

Argument, Results

"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

Argument,

"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak."

William Godwin, English Writer

Argument, Doubt

"I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months."

Peter Scott, English Artist

Argument, Fact, Months, Training

"I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message."

Anthony Holden, British Journalist

Argument, Blame, Old, Popular

"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."

Edward W. Howe, American Novelist

Argument, Satisfaction

"The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it."

Andre Maurois, French Writer

Argument, Opinion

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"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."

Nature, Men, God, Earth

"Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails."

Identity, Feet, Man

"If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people."

Communication, Language, People, Reality, Experience

"Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class."

Happiness, Class, State

"Life must be lived as play."

Life, Play

"Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically."

Art, Geometry, Soul, Manifestation

"The wisest have the most authority."

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"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."

"We must reinforce argument with results."

"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."

"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak."

"I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months."

"I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message."

"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."

"The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it."

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"Wealth is well known to be a great comforter."

"Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time."

"I would fain grow old learning many things."

"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."

"Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails."

"If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people."

"Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class."

"Life must be lived as play."

"Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically."

"The wisest have the most authority."