"Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him."
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"I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence."
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"The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct."
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"You never win an argument until they attack your person."
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"Agreeing to differ. [Lat., Discors concordia.]"
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"The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence."
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"Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice."
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"... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes."
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"Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences."
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"There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life."
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"I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary."
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"He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument."
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"The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming."
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"This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped in sufficient profundity that they take on a kind of plausibility."
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"I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say."
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"What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?"
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"The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side."
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"In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments."
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"The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable."
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"I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly."
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