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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 truth is always the strongest argument.

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

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

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.

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

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.