If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea. — Ben Casnocha Copy Share Image
The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and… — Carmen Miranda Copy Share Image
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“For the sake of argument, let's say all your choices and all your effort are destined to be a waste. You're still… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself:… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“The worst part, the worst part, was that Lord de Worde was never wrong. It was not a position he understood in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
As we breathe and live, have a conversation, and you look in someone's eyes, and you see a sunset or have an… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
The New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, cited Haqqani to make the argument that Guantánamo must be shut down. He wrote:“Husain Haqqani,… — Husain Haqqani Copy Share Image
Don't get divorced after your first argument! I have a lot of friends that have one fight and that's it, they get… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
We did respect [Bernard Leach], although we also were willing to challenge ideas and at least put forth our feelings about the… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself.… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
“When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The key that opens that door is proving to the American public that illegal immigration is under control. And at this point,… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art,… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
I hear from a lot of young women, you know, I don't want to call myself a feminist because I don't want… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“It wasn't an attack. We'd been together too many times before, made love together too many times before, for it to be… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“(For those who like to quote Aristotle’s wisdom when appealing to his “Prime Mover” argument for the existence of God, let us… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a… — George Sand Copy Share Image
We had an argument once, yeah. It was the best thing that could have happened to our working relationship. After that, we… — Andy Van Slyke Copy Share Image
You almost never get the pleasure of seeing that you won the argument in real time. People just don't like to publicly… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I read the 'Guardian,' because it's a bit like having an argument with a mate. We mostly have the same sensibilities, but… — Lennie James Copy Share Image
“When you are unsure about what you believe in, anything can turn into an argument. Everything can become debatable. But when you… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“The Angel (in Joshua) declared that he was born leader and indicated that he was in the army of the Lord. The… — Dennis Garvin Copy Share Image
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
If I just point out the fact that black people hurt each other, too, then we can ignore the fact that other… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
Ultimately, however, conflict lies not in objective reality, but in people's heads. Truth is simple one argument - perhaps a good one,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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