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The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game. — Earl Weaver
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God. — George Whitefield
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. — Oscar Wilde
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. — Oscar Wilde
Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences. — George Will
The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing… — Julian Baggini
All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically — Steven Weinberg
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
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
She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their… — Orson Scott Card
There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that… — Henry B. Eyring
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's… — George Saunders
The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that… — John Stuart Mill
One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are… — Sigmund Freud
Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against… — Thomas Aquinas
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. — Isaac Asimov
A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin — Charles Darwin

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