Quotes and Sayings About Argument
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Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.
-- Adam Clarke -
The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been so much wealth built up that we really can feel spending for some time.
-- Adam LaVorgna -
It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry.
-- Alan Woods -
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You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.
-- Alberto FujimoriSource : "Fujimori breaks silence and urges release of hostages". www.cnn.com. December 22, 1996.
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
-- Alexander Pope -
A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
-- Ali SmithSource : "Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.
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One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.
-- Alice Miller -
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.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful.
-- Allan Lichtman -
Argument should be polite as well as logical.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
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Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.
-- Alvin PlantingaSource : Alvin Plantinga (1974). “The Nature of Necessity”, p.221, Oxford University Press on Demand
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A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.
-- Amartya Sen -
GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.'
-- Amy Poehler -
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Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.
-- Amy Tan -
The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.
-- Anabel Jensen -
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
-- Andre MauroisSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems.
-- Andrew S. TanenbaumSource : "The "Linux is Obsolete" Debate". In a Usenet message, January 29, 1992.
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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.
-- Andy Van SlykeSource : "Answer Man: Andy Van Slyke talks slugging Bonds, coaching first". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. May 01, 2008.
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A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
-- Angela CarterSource : Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage
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Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.
-- Ann Coulter -
... I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it ...
-- Anne Morice -
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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.
-- Antony Flew -
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
-- Aristophanes -
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
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History is, indeed, an argument without end.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
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Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
-- Auguste Rodin