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Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.

Avoid Arguments Like Rattlesnakes And Earthquakes

Barring a theoretical resolution, which I think is unlikely, you either have to say there are zillions of parallel universes out there that we can't observe at present or you have to say there was a plan. I actually find the argument of the existence of a God who did the planning more compelling than the bubbling of all these multiverses.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It's love without strings. It's ideal.

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot.

Clear statement is argument.

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations.

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

Freud suggests that in order to love someone else, one must love themselves; it's a classic "needs before other needs" argument. Unfortunately, no one really loves themselves . And, if they do, they need to get to know themselves better. Unfortunately, no one is really happy.

[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

Gays (homosexuals) usually bring up the argument about all the straight couples living in 'sham' marriages, but I see no point in dragging the Clintons into this

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.