If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make,… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
“In an argument, a “teller” will frequently remind you of how well they treat you, even after blatantly hurting you. A “show-er”… — Jackson MacKenzie Copy Share Image
People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument.… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics… — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
I don't care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Gun control advocates used to claim that more guns meant more crime. Research demonstrated, though, that more guns meant less crime. As… — Steven Milloy Copy Share Image
The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Leaders may recognize that they are not addressing the real problems, but they rationalize their actions with the argument that they must… — Arthur Demarest 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
In an age in which infidelity abounds, do we observe parents carefully instructing their children in the principles of faith which they… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“When students are taught to approach argument through inquiry, good things happen: they choose topics worthy of arguing, they gain ownership (through… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
In my work, you get used to criticisms. Of course you do, because there are a lot of people trying to get… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Even in the Senate, I'd put up any of the stories we did against any pablum Time or Newsweek has put out… — Marc Morano Copy Share Image
“If you aspire to be truly open-minded, you can’t just try to see the other side of an argument. That’s not enough.… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isnt really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I feel as if dystopian and utopian representations are historically the most effective way of criticizing modern society. You know, because you… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
An argument frequently used by believers [is] to force unbelievers to soften their terms by accepting their opponents' definition; "Atheist" means without… — Jim Herrick Copy Share Image
It became the middle finger I couldn’t raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
I feel like we're stuck in the former mode of reacting because that's what gains traction in Washington. But I really believe… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as… — Robert Lewis Hinkle Copy Share Image
“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Matt 13:57. Then Jesus told them, 'A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his own family.' The… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason… — Norman Geras Copy Share Image
“What is it with that argument? Why is it that you have to jump through hoops of fire to find out that… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“If I hurt your feelings we ought to discuss it. I don't like this kiss-and-forget.' 'But I don't want to argue. I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may be in the majority now, but someday… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I have dumped a girl over the phone. It's terrible, isn't it? We got into an argument during a phone call, so… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
![“A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics as played by liberals. And that I think what they're trying to say is that progressives are the first to say.” quote by Dahlia Lithwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b8c/dahlia-lithwick-17366_argument_a-lot-of-conservative-writers-have-twist_814703.jpg)
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