Arguments Quotes

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Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up. — Donald Rumsfeld
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to… — Salman Rushdie
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation. — Salman Rushdie
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it… — Dan Savage
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion. — Marilyn vos Savant
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption. — Marilyn vos Savant
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step,… — Charles Schumer
I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be… — David Sedaris
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. — George Bernard Shaw
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and… — William Tecumseh Sherman
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. — Peter Singer
There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture. — Laurence Sterne
Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing,… — James Surowiecki
I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese. — Amy Tan
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. — Booth Tarkington
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache. — Tertullian
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. — Margaret Thatcher
On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund. — Malcolm Turnbull
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. — Miguel de Unamuno

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