F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments."
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Argument
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Hannah Arendt
Philosopher, Political Theorist
"Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil."
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken."
Frederick Douglass
Social Reformer, Writer
"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher, Writer, Composer
"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."
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"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."
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"When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced."
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"The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."
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"Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place."
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"It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit"
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"That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong."
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"To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading."
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"A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin"
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"A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive."
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"Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves."
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"It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties."
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"The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators."
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"In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing."
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"I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do."
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"My life is my argument."
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"Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt."
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"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
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"But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions."
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"There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing."
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"Your argument is sound, nothing but sound."
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