To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and… — Daniel Webster 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
When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
As a profession, freelance writing is notoriously insecure. That's the first argument in its favor. For many reasons, a few of them… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Video store arguments really bother me. Let's say it's a slow night on campus so you decide to stay in and rent… — Aaron Karo Copy Share Image
I often think people don't know what to think of me, and in fact this is precisely the objective of many of… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Shari'a is not just the Qur'an, you see Shari'a is comprised according to all the doctrines. There's consensus and analogy - argument… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
I like it when people are opinionated. I like an opinion. I like people that will fight for their opinion 'til an… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I like debate and argument, so I'm usually all right with disagreement, and I'm even all right if the critic doesn't come… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She… — Ronald Dworkin Copy Share Image
What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
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And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
My belief in free competitive economic enterprise does not rest solely or even mainly on arguments of economic efficiency, though, heaven knows,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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An officer should never speak ironically or sarcastically to an enlisted man, since the latter does not have a fair chance to… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall Copy Share Image
Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
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“Another fallacy comes creeping in whose errors you should be meticulous in trying to avoid. Don't think our eyes, our bright and… — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
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Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Filmmaking materials are in the hands of more people now than ever before. I would like to think that the more people… — Murray Horwitz Copy Share Image
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Only in the 20th century, artists started taking the study of perception in a more humane way. They were thinking about the… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
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I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
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If you and I are not having a dialogue, when you're having an argument, the reason the argument happen is because we… — Subir Chowdhury Copy Share Image
We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
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