The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
There’s no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
A lot of people want to know why did I leave the BBC: did I have an argument with them? No! I… — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
Back when Detroit was the head of auto manufacturing, it was clear where profits were created. Right? A car was made in… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you're angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Mathematics is about problems, and problems must be made the focus of a student's mathematical life. Painful and creatively frustrating as it… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable.… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“If you want to win this argument with Dad, look in chapter two of the first book of the Feynman Lectures on… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
People have got to make their best calls in what they think about a case when they're covering it. But I do… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Attaching "produced at Berkeley, Harvard, MIT" to a ridiculous argument immediately makes it cogent to many. That's part of life, but let's… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“...His argument, as set out in The Problems of Philosophy, was based on the empirical fact that we are not only aware… — Alfred Jules Ayer Copy Share Image
The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the… — H. E. Bates Copy Share Image
“People rid the room of argument until they have no one left — except people who agree with them. It is understandable.… — Bono Copy Share Image
Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The safety argument against steroids may be a good one, but let's be honest. It isn't the one that motivates most officials… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along… — Barbara Mandrell Copy Share Image
The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept,… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Simplicity is all. Simple logic, simple arguments, simple visual images. If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“From this arises an argument: whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
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