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"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."
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"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."
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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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"You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson."
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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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"My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem."
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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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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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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."
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"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."
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"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."
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Explore more quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right."
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"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."
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"I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it."
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"I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it."
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"A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life."
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"I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order."
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