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"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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"Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed."
Sincerity
"Good writers are of necessity rare."
Writer
"Science is the systematic classification of experience."
Experience
"Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without."
Literature
"Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them."
Man
"Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols."
Art
"Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength."
Strength
"All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand."
Literature
"In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable."
Thought
"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."
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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."
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"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."
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"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."
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Personal Development
"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
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"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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"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."
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"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."
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"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."
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"We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself."
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