"It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything."
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"How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms"
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"In a false quarrel there is no true valor."
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"Follow the argument wherever it leads."
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"Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win."
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"No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change."
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"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."
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"Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion."
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"The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment."
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
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"One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say."
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"This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position."
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"The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion."
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"Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading."
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"The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation."
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"One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'"
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"The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved."
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"Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument."
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"A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments."
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"There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument."
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