Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Because it is human nature to believe the first story heard, and not its rebuttal.” — Katherine Longshore Copy Share Image
Any rebuttal to what I utter get box-cuttered. Count how many bad honeys I slut, its a high number. Name a nigga… — Nas Copy Share Image
We had a national tragedy this week, and the President of the United States and Sarah Palin both made speeches on the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces.… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I'm not going to sit around an pretend I'm not thinking things on my blog when I am thinking them and when… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote. — George Sanders Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
The debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a "viable" explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
President Obama gave a speech about healthcare tonight, and yesterday he gave a pep talk to students. He told them that in… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I don't do formal debates, because formal debates where you have two people up on a stage in equal status, and each… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Nothing works on the campaign trail like attacks on candidates for bad attendance. It alienates people on both sides of every issue… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
“To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
By 1938, Eleanor Roosevelt was so angry at FDR's policies, she writes a book called This Troubled World. And it is actually… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Most of those men don’t want to sleep with you,” he said in blunt rebuttal. “I reserve the right to introduce my… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Rebut the negative, and the opposing campaign has not merely lost a skirmish, it has suffered almost irreparable damage. An effective rebuttal… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
“Now, the scene you just saw," I began, pointing to the stage. "Was about you and T.C.," he concluded, nodding like he… — Steve Kluger Copy Share Image
“Resist the urge to plan a “comeback” or a rebuttal. Your brain cannot listen well and prepare to speak at the same… — Travis Bradberry Copy Share Image
“You read card after card until you’re talking so fast that it’s hard to tell whether you’re giving your rebuttal or suffering… — Katie A. Nelson Copy Share Image
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Nagarjuna's Rebuttal ofObjec- tions says: If there were anything to be observed Through direct perception and the other instances [of valid cognition],… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
[About a conference on Systematic Biology] Many interesting statements were made that apply directly to the work of taxonomists. In some cases… — Richard E. Blackwelder Copy Share Image
[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
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