Argued Quotes
207 quotes by 192 authors
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It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree.
— Frank Woolley
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It is sometimes argued that one of the benefits of legalizing addictive drugs is that they could be taxed, and the government revenues enhanced. From…
— Walter Block
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Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate…
— Ken Jennings
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If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off.
— Charles Fried
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Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.
— Alex Tabarrok
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Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
— Fred Brooks
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The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find of…
— Stuart Ewen
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At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our…
— Nelson Mandela
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It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.
— Aristotle
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The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said
— C.S. Lewis
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The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.
— C.S. Lewis
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Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a…
— Natan Sharansky
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I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel…
— Sarah Vowell
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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities…
— Vernor Vinge
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I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they…
— Juan Cole
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"In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave…
— Lewis Carroll
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Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence…
— Dan Simmons
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Being daily better informed about their knowledge than my adversaries themselves, I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the…
— Adolf Hitler
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In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen,…
— Jonathan Clements
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I’ve never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on. If someone comes out of a…
— Rand Paul
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