"Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments."
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"Religious contention is the devil's harvest."
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"The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force."
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"Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others."
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"Arguments, like men, are often pretenders."
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"Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues."
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"A gun is not an argument."
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"I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument."
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"When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind."
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"I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments."
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"As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very easily in the minds of a lot Americans feel like, "Now I'm being treated unfairly.""
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"Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours."
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"Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp."
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"You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument."
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"A majority of Trump's voters were in favor of staying in the Paris Agreement. And if you look at what's really happening in the economy, the economic argument actually is very strongly in favor of the Paris Agreement. There are now twice as many jobs in the solar industry as in the coal industry. Solar jobs are growing 17 times faster than other jobs in the U.S."
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"There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events."
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"The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion."
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"Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do."
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"Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows."
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"Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it."
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