There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we… — K. V. Thomas Copy Share Image
Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
... if you insist that the inference is made by a chain of reasoning, I desire you to produce that reasoning. The… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm not in Iraq. I'm here in California. Have I had an argument with my husband today? Have I been at war… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Some of the people who are now manipulating photos, such as Andreas Gursky, make the argument - rightly - that the 'straight'… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again. — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital.… — Ezra Heywood Copy Share Image
“Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon” — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable… — Dawn Johnsen Copy Share Image
Many people have written about the economic meaning of globalization; in One World Peter Singer explains its moral meaning. His position is… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Rand Paul is going to go anywhere, he is going to have to expand it beyond merely this argument about where… — Howard Fineman Copy Share Image
The claim is also sometimes made that science is as arbitrary or irrational as all other claims to knowledge, or that reason… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
