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Argument Quote by Amy Tan

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“Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.”

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A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

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Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does…

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Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they…

Michael Servetus

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Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this…

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As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very…

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The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

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On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -…

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“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.”

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