Argued Quotes
207 quotes by 192 authors
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It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than…
— Robert L. Devaney
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Some have argued that the President is required to get permission from a federal court before taking action against a United States citizen who is…
— Eric Holder
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I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that. We argued about it…
— Dave Barry
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I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you see examples of…
— Frans de Waal
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I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate…
— Richard P. Feynman
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I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be…
— H. L. Mencken
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A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
— Alan Parker
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I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
— Alan Parker
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It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at…
— Margaret MacMillan
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I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just…
— Neil Kinnock
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By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
— Taslima Nasrin
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My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns.…
— Daniel Pipes
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It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in…
— E. O. Wilson
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In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for…
— Marshall McLuhan
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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
— Carl Bernstein
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I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy…
— Juan Cole
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I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
— Charles Durning
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