Among many who sought to deter me, was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument always was, "The cannibals! you will… — John Gibson Paton Copy Share Image
The arguments of waste are heavily overdone, because what you do is to accelerate the infrastructure that you have to build anyway,… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
My argument against the set-up picture is that it leaves the matter of content to the imagination of the photographer, a faculty… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are constraints on what counts as "Reformed." It's more than a name or a label. It's about belonging to a particular… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently… — Stanton T. Friedman Copy Share Image
When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“History is above all else an argument. It is an argument between different historians; and, perhaps, an argument between the past and… — John H. Arnold Copy Share Image
Satire works in a bunch of specific ways, like a very precisely-geared bomb. It's a bit like something that looks harmless, and… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
“reasonings on this subject can only be drawn from effects to causes; and that every argument, deducted from causes to effects, must… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Let the record show that you can be a United States senator for 21 years. You can be 79 years old. You… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
The least Anararchic person in that conversation is the person saying 'you can't be an anarchist if you believe in god.' Because… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind, after 37 years of study and investigation that the evidence is overwhelming that planet Earth… — Stanton T. Friedman Copy Share Image
There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This relationship is the foundation for the argument, made by some trade unionists and labour advocates, that high wages can actually be… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
“I leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father’s paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
It's actually quite common for presidents to believe that future generations will render a verdict on their presidencies that is more lasting… — David Greenberg Copy Share Image
At the Berghof, it was almost like a family atmosphere there. We all ate meals together, watched films together before the war,… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling,… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Senate Bill 1062 does not address a specific and present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona. I have not heard of… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
There are lots of reasons fewer people are watching network news, and one of them, I'm more convinced than ever, is that… — Bernard Goldberg Copy Share Image
The first rules about Islamic law weren't even written down for a century and a half after the Prophet's death, and it… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
“His face became a mirror, and in it I saw a monster version of myself, unleashing my anger like black magic. In… — Leah Stewart Copy Share Image
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“There are no facts or uses of reason which are available outside of the interpretive system. The argument must pit the unbeliever's… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument;… — Wolfgang Thierse Copy Share Image
“When you lay down a proposition which is forthwith controverted, it is of course optional with you to take up the cudgels… — Henry James Copy Share Image
All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The first step in understanding the sex industry is to understand the customers, the johns. ... These men have already violated moral… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“I do not think anyone can read the letters which passed between Clarke and [Anthony] Collins without admitting that Collins, who writes… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I am aware of existing in a nearly constant state of inner turmoil and argument. I become frustrated with my work when… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image