"The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers."

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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

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

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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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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"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."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"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

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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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"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."

John Sayles, American Director

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"To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind."

John Tillotson, British Theologian

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"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future."

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"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."

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"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."

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"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end."

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"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality."

Society

"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."

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"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

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"Learn as much by writing as by reading."

Reading

"The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority."

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"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that."

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