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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.

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.

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 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.

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

The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding more slowly than in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

There's no winning arguments with your parents

There's an argument that celebrities stop growing mentally the moment they reach stardom and then they just - everything goes away. I think that's true.

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

There's a very real argument that the minute we are capable of going to a planet, whether it's Mars or another one, and inhabiting it, that we really should.

The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf.

The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isnt really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

The sole argument generally given to justify this picture of the world is that perturbative string theories have a massless spin two mode and thus could provide an explanation of gravity, if one ever managed to find an underlying theory for which perturbative string theory is the perturbative expansion.

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.

The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence.

The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

The truth is always the strongest argument.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

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.

The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

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.

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

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 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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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