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This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped in sufficient profundity that they take on a kind of plausibility.

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

This relationship is the foundation for the argument, made by some trade unionists and labour advocates, that high wages can actually be "good for business". The precedent set by Henry Ford in 1914, who offered workers $5.00 per day (a very high wage at the time) so they could afford to buy the same cars they made, is often invoked.

Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

To borrow from Mark Twain, I tend to think that reports of the death of supervaluationist approaches have been greatly exaggerated. The arguments that have been given against supervaluationism usually aim to show that it is just incoherent. But it's not. It may be false, as a general theory of vagueness, but it's a coherent and, I think, even correct way to think about some vagueness.

To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

Trump will not respond to reasoned argument. He will not be held accountable for the things he said. All you can do is point and laugh. Because the devil cannot abide mockery.

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.

Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not believe them. I cannot prove that electrons exist..........if you don't believe in them I have a high voltage cattle prod I'm willing to apply as an argument on their behalf. Electrons speak for themselves.

Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.

We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

We like people who are honest. Honest in argument, honest with clients, honest with suppliers, honest with the company - and above all, honest with consumers.

We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.

We had an argument once, yeah. It was the best thing that could have happened to our working relationship. After that, we understood each other and got along much better. I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

We should not accept moral nihilism unless we find strong arguments to do so.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half.

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.

What we've been hearing over and over again is that the reason Republicans are opposed to the surtax is because of the concern of its impact on job creation. Well, if you carve out employers, you take away that argument.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room.

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.

Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.

When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.