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An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Any argument where one supposes an arbitrary choice to be made an uncountably infinite number of times ...[is] outside the domain of mathematics.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind.

Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to those for which exceptions have been made.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

Are you going to win every argument?" He was pretty certain he'd asked her that once before. May be twice. "Only the important ones.

Are there any good arguments in defence of moral nihilism? I think not.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.

Argument is to me the air I breathe.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.

Arguments are too much like disputes.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

As a Democrat, one of the things that frustrates me the most is there are a lot of times we just don't get in the fight. We ask pretty please if we can have things or we make the argument for why it is the best thing to do, and then wait patiently for the other side to agree to come along. We negotiate. We start our opening position by negotiating.

A sense of humor is an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny.

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very easily in the minds of a lot Americans feel like, "Now I'm being treated unfairly.

Barring a theoretical resolution, which I think is unlikely, you either have to say there are zillions of parallel universes out there that we can't observe at present or you have to say there was a plan. I actually find the argument of the existence of a God who did the planning more compelling than the bubbling of all these multiverses.

Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.

Avoid Arguments Like Rattlesnakes And Earthquakes

But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It's love without strings. It's ideal.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

Clear statement is argument.