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Argument Quotes
"John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization."
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"Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went."
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"We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well."
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"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
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"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."
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"If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments."
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"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."
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"Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed."
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"George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none."
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"Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue."
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"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them."
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"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."
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"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."
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"When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion."
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"Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public."
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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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"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."
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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."
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"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
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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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"I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all."
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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."
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"Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument."
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"The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it."
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"We must reinforce argument with results."
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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."
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