Lawyers serve a purpose, and we couldn't operate as society without them. They can make things more complicated and difficult, but there… — Gabriel Macht Copy Share Image
Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
Rap makes the conservative argument about what happens when family life is eroded either by welfare and drugs, or by the stresses… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
This is why I didn't get married last year," she said to him. "I wouldn't be here to nurse you." She thought… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought. 2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue. 3.… — Douglas N. Walton Copy Share Image
Since the break-up of the 1990s, Russia has not had winter sports facilities. All the winter sport venues were effectively located in… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I won the argument against the knife that night, but barely. I had some other good ideas around that time--about how jumping… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
My most recent faith struggle is not one of intellect. I don’t really do that anymore. Sooner or later you just figure… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Any momentary triumph you think you have gained through argument is really a Pyrrhic victory. The resentment and ill will you stir… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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