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

Argument, Arguments, Soldiers

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

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"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."

Studs Terkel, American Journalist

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"Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument."

Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer

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"Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad."

Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer

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"Neither irony or sarcasm is argument."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry."

Jim Fowler, American Scientist

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"When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners."

Richard Carlson, American Author

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"If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments."

Herbert Prochnow, American Banker

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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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"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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"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."

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"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."

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"To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject."

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"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."

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"It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into."

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"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."

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"One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them."

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"It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories."

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