"You're insane!" "I won't argue that point."
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"Homeopaths argue that water has a memory."
"It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead."
"He who argues for his limitations gets to keep them"
"I don't argue style on the basis of tastes. If you feel like you've reached your personal best, don't change."
"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."
"We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods."
"Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for."
"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."
"I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. Just PUT THE BLOODY METER ON."
"The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity."
"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."
"Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show."
"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."
"The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please."
"To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap."
"If you’re that clever you can argue yourself into anything."
"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."
"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."