Argument Quotes
1783 quotes by 1284 authors
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Some people accused me of being pro-Muslim in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an equal hearing, but in…
— Christiane Amanpour
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I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down…
— Jon Hamm
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But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and…
— Peter Thiel
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And I used to assemble the family to hear because I thought that they were so good that even from the point of view of…
— Ruth Pitter
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Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We…
— Paul Lockhart
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A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that,…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital accumulation, but it has succeeded remarkably well in restoring, or in some instances (as in…
— David Harvey
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Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument…
— Francis Collins
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We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
— Roger Scruton
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The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.
— William Matthews
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The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music,…
— Evan Parker
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Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me, they would draw…
— Bruce Bartlett
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The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long…
— Jacque Fresco
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When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.
— Hyman Rickover
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The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
— William Henry Harrison
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There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and the wise counsel…
— Howard Schultz
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The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but…
— Frank Chodorov
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