They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
President Lincoln was trying to convince some people, he used some arguments, convincing other people, he used other arguments. That was a… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The sad fact is that today most of the heads of big businesses in America have become so confused or intimidated that,… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of… — Swami Abhedananda Copy Share Image
... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
When you have a good friend that really cares for you and tries to stick in there with you, you treat them… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In brief, I regard love as a more decisive focus of meaning than death. In terms of Heidegger's argument, this is because… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
One of the things I want to do in the book is to explore how philosophy can be done in literature. I… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A sports writer who covers baseball could go up to Tony La Russa and have a real baseball argument, and Tony would… — Colin Cowherd Copy Share Image
It is true that there's an economic argument and an economic feeling that something different needs to happen and politicians talking out… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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It's a tough one for me, politics. I grew up in a house where my father is a Christian book salesman and… — James Corden Copy Share Image
Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offenses against Charity are about the only ones which men… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“What came next wasn't exactly silence, because although it was quiet, a thousand things were being said. I hated that part about… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Team members care about one another, listen, share secrets, talk about the latest news, have heated arguments, are sometimes jealous of each… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Big History's not going to replace existing educational courses. It's not an attack on specialisation. It is simply the argument that specialisation… — David Christian Copy Share Image
If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument. — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I love the question-and-answer. I love to see liberals try to thrash their way to a coherent argument. And actually, I think… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that "I may be… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
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