If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction,… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Everybody have equal rights to a life of full flourishing. Philosophy slowly, slowly has given us arguments saying, look, you already committed… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
In the mighty and almost limitless potential of American industry-the brilliance and rugged determination of its leaders; the skill, energy and patriotism… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
People might be making too much of me maturing and growing; I’m still the same person. I still like to joke around… — Patrick Kane Copy Share Image
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October… — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
I mean, obviously, one of the strongest arguments against evolution and selection of the fittest and progress, which is part of evolution,… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
What we've been hearing over and over again is that the reason Republicans are opposed to the surtax is because of the… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial… — William Banting Copy Share Image
I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be… — David Hare Copy Share Image
...genuine trust implies the opportunity, of checking wherever it may be wanted... That is why it is the evidence, the experience itself… — Philip Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
[T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an idea .… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word,… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument—… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
In my view, the argument from parsimony is really no argument at all - it typically functions only to shut down more… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been… — Adam LaVorgna Copy Share Image
Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Because the speech is an argument, and a great speech makes an argument well, the act of making that argument is a… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the… — George Burton Adams Copy Share Image
“I also recommend that both parties observe a “two-minute rule” in which neither interrupts the other, so they both have time to… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ad hominem is a notoriously weak logical argument. And is usually used to distract the focus of a discussion - to move… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed. — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
“The point is simply to keep the argument going, to ensure that it never reaches a conclusion (which leads to confusion, fatigue… — Matthew d'Ancona Copy Share Image
Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
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