Argument Quotes

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When you're in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy? — Wayne Dyer
Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel… — Michael Ignatieff
An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument. — John B. S. Haldane
Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments. — Daniel Okrent
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise… — John Podesta
I don't make a Bible argument in the ad, nor have I made a bible argument in the public space. My argument is simple, which… — Gary Bauer
If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically… — Gary Bauer
The argument now that the spread of pop culture and consumer goods around the world represents the triumph of Western civilization trivializes Western culture. The… — Samuel P. Huntington
I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, weâ€™ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we donâ€™t believe in the… — Caitlin Moran
Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own criticalâ€”and creativeâ€”thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what it meant to… — Todd Haynes
I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose. — Peter Medawar
I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants. — Benjamin Banneker
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism… — Thomas Nagel
To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in retrospect,… — Jerry Fodor
I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to,… — Jonathan Mayhew
One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact. — David F. Houston
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with… — Charles Caleb Colton
Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity. — PZ Myers
A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument. — Leonard Ravenhill
A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can… — Roy Hattersley

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