Argued Quotes
207 quotes by 192 authors
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In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
— Jonathan Sacks
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
— Vidal Sassoon
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It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.
— Will Self
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Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character…
— Will Self
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You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and…
— Earl Warren
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I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends…
— Andrew Weil
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'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush…
— Naomi Wolf
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Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market…
— Janet Yellen
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Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
— Francis Collins
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Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.
— Steven Levitt
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Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it…
— Tom Robbins
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...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main…
— Terry Pratchett
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Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending…
— Dean Koontz
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Well, well, so you aren't going to be a maidservant this time?" said Pippi, stroking his back. "Oh, that was a lie, that's true," she…
— Astrid Lindgren
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It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof…
— H. L. Mencken
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We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not…
— Stephen Hawking
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All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be argued, but its…
— Raymond Chandler
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I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of…
— Chinua Achebe
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