Argument Quotes

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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance.… — David Attenborough
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental… — Margaret Atwood
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal… — Roger Bacon
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. — Lord Acton
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. — Hosea Ballou
I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it. — Douglas Adams
My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments. — John Barrymore
I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming… — Mario Batali
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. — Pierre Beaumarchais
Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion,… — Bob Beauprez
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. — Joseph Addison
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent… — Robert Benchley
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder,… — Jack Benny
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one… — John Berger
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. — Wendell Berry
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by… — Annie Besant
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. — Josh Billings
The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot… — Conrad Black
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it. — Edward de Bono

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