"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

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"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

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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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"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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"In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort."

William Gilbert, British Composer

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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."

Robert Benchley, American Comedian

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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."

Peter Scott, English Artist

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"Observe which side resorts to the most vociferous name-calling and you are likely to have identified the side with the weaker argument and they know it."

Charles R. Anderson, American Scientist

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"At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat."

William Henry Moody, American Politician

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"For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught."

Roger Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."

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"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."

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"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"

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"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."

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"There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking."

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