Argument Quotes

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One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance… — Douglas Rushkoff
The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex… — Richard Dawkins
It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because… — John Irving
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change… — Carl Sagan
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other… — Graham Chapman
When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. — C S Forester
All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically — Steven Weinberg
I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you… — Elizabeth Gilbert
What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence,… — John Milton
...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an… — Vladimir Nabokov
I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the… — Charles Dickens
When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion… — Sam Harris
I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign… — Dave Barry
The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible… — Leo Tolstoy
And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long… — Curtis Sittenfeld
Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying… — William Hazlitt
When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong,… — Ayn Rand
I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument? — William Shakespeare
She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She… — Nicole Krauss
not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of… — Thomas Jefferson

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