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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Arguing

"It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead."

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Stacy London Television Personality
Arguing

"I don't argue style on the basis of tastes. If you feel like you've reached your personal best, don't change."

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Robert M. Gates Politician
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"I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for."

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Gary Vaynerchuk Entrepreneur, Author
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"I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time."

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James Thurber Cartoonist, Author
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"My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point."

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Jesus Franco Filmmaker
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"Of all the things about de Sade, I would argue he is funny. A lot of people didn't understand de Sade. No. 1, he is a very good writer, and No. 2, he had the courage to talk about a lot of things that in public, even now, almost nobody has the courage to talk about. He would do it with a kind of funny way - not the stories themselves, but the way he tells them. He is never serious."

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John Green Author, YouTuber
Arguing

"You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it."

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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
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"You could argue the banks are much better capitalised than they were going into the crisis, and everyone's in a much more vigilant state because they still remember the crisis."

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