"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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"Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect."
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"The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence."
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"We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself."
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"When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy."
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"The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow."
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"Let your life be your argument."
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"All argument is against it; but all belief is for it."
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"It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it."
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"Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about."
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"I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument."
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"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."
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"In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what he wants. It's only through a confront, a non-verbal confront, that anything happens. It has to be non-verbal."
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"Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing"
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"In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once."
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"Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form."
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