"I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting."
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"Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are. Ever see a cat feed a human? Case proven."
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"One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem."
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"Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers. But I would argue that there are big virtue effects in economics. I would say that the spreading of double-entry bookkeeping by the Monk, Fra Luce de Pacioli, was a big virtue effect in economics. It made business more controllable, and it made it more honest."
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"Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard."
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"Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these."
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"By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?"
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"My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith."
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"Many can argue - not many converse."
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"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."
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"China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario."
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"Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike."
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"If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them."
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"Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon."
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"My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems."
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"You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth."
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"If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts."
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"What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions."
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"Personal improvement is like sitting in a movie theater, arguing with the villain projected on the screen, and feeling that at least we have tried to make things better."
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"You can argue about globalization and the many benefits it has had, but also you have to appeal to the mass with everything. The Chinese, the Americans, the Russians... Everything becomes this very bland product, and that's all we're producing at the moment. It's driven by money."
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