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The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been so much wealth built up that we really can feel spending for some time.

The first rules about Islamic law weren't even written down for a century and a half after the Prophet's death, and it was another five centuries, half a millennium, before they assumed anything like a definitive form. So there have always been huge arguments over what Islamic law actually requires. There are four main schools of law in Sunni thought and there's a separate school of law in Shia thought, so these arguments do take place.

The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

The great merit of Stephen Gould's account of the disastrous history of phychometrics is that he shifts the argument from a sterile contest between environmentalists and hereditarians and turns it into an argument between those who are impressed with what our biology stops us doing and those who are impressed with what it allows us to do.

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't. The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, like Iraq and Afghanistan, things don't go as expected.

The idea comes before the logical argument.

The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't.

The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.

The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

Theists give several 'proofs' of the existence of God. These are really just arguments, because if there were convincing proof just one would suffice.

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 all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

The key that opens that door is proving to the American public that illegal immigration is under control. And at this point, that argument cannot be made because it is not true, it is not under control.

... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

The moot court process in our office when we get ready, we - everybody, including the SG, does two moot courts for each argument. And they are phenomenal, and they predict 90 percent of the questions that I get asked, at least 90 percent.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.

The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the belief that the universe is both rational and contingent. Such a belief is the presupposition of modern science and cannot by any conceivable argument be a product of science. One has to ask: Upon what is this belief founded?

The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.

The only argument you can make against having Confederate flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag...

The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.

The part that the public sees is the arguments up at the podium and the briefs that we file. But a significant part of the job - in fact, I'd say I spend more of my time on this part of the job, which is deciding what the position of the United States will be in the cases that we're going to be participating in before the court.

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems.

The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

There are 435 members of Congress. There's one 'Morning Joe' show. Hopefully, we can keep hammering the argument that you can disagree with other people and have debates but remain civil.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.

There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

There are some very difficult things to understand that globalization is providing, that people really think are just here but really are a function of some of that. There are some very difficult arguments.

The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.