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A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument that science should lead to atheism, and demonstrates instead that Dawkins has abandoned his much-cherished rationality to embrace an embittered manifesto of dogmatic atheist fundamentalism.

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

After having exhausted all the arguments on behalf of evil, one utters the creed's dictums with nostalgia rather than with fervor.

A good action is preferable to an argument.

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

A good life is a main argument.

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.

Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.

All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this head, to wit, that we are under an invincible blindness as to the true and real nature of things.

A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this argument constitutes a persuasive case for the existence of God.

Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights.

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.

An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.

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

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.