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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."
"To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus."
"Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits."
"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."
"It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us."
"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."
"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."
"Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument."
Explore more quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum."
"To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so."
"If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special."
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