"How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!"
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"Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop."
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"The argument is at an end."
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"If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument"
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"For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem."
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"The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration."
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"When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument."
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"When Jesus got the big questions, he didn't present arguments. He presented himself."
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"Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not believe them. I cannot prove that electrons exist..........if you don't believe in them I have a high voltage cattle prod I'm willing to apply as an argument on their behalf. Electrons speak for themselves."
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"A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises."
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"Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver."
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"I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles."
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"Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many."
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"I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us."
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"I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice."
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"I decided that I would make my life my argument."
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"Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered."
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"The best argument is an undeniably good book."
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"The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance."
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"Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever."
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