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Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem with that. When you say "raw" it implies that my show is dirty and that's not the case.

Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

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 well and triumphs.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's going on right in front of me. TC mark

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.

Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

Study hard. Understand not only the questions, but the questioner. Know how best to articulate the answers, but do it with humility, because ultimately the answer is in a person, the person of Christ, not in an argument. So, do your work and know how to present the answer, but do it with gentleness and meekness.

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.

Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you're angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to death. There need not be any other argument against death penalty.

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

The argument for collectivism is simple; free market is not.

The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out.

The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more 'consent' to pregnancy than pedestrians 'consent' to being struck by drunk drivers.'

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's always outside agitators doing it.

The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.