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" Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument. "
David Crystal
" A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities. "
Edward Sapir
" A day without an argument is like an egg without salt. "
Angela Carter
" Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own? "
Robert Walpole
" Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. "
George Santayana
" A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument. "
Julia Bacha
" A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. "
Rowan Williams
" After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want! "
Jacques Pepin
" After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means. "
Mason Cooley
" After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again. "
Ric Keller
" A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book. "
Ali Smith
" AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap. "
Calvin Klein
" A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on. "
Rebecca MacKinnon
" An adjective, such as 'flimsy,' describes someone's access to a thing, such as 'argument.' But that's just that someone's access. It may be accurate. But it's theirs nevertheless. "
Timothy Morton
" An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature. "
Herbert Spencer
" Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. "
George Savile
" Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples? "
Ted Olson
" Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. "
Rebecca West
" Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny or eight-year-old takes the highest quality of your powers. "
Simon Schama
" Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. "
Leonardo da Vinci
" Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. "
Phyllis Diller
" Apple chief executive Tim Cook is such a respected figure that it's easy to overlook the basic problem with his argument about encryption: Cook is asserting that a private company and the interests of its customers should prevail over the public's interest as expressed by our courts. "
David Ignatius
" A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument. "
Sholom Aleichem
" Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. "
Roger Bacon
" Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it. "
Edward de Bono
" As a Jew, I believe that every argument has a counterargument. "
Howard Jacobson
" As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing. "
Johann Most
" A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. "
Edgar Allan Poe
" A tactic used by authors of virtually every single book I've ever read that propounds a conspiracy theory is to attack an agency as being part of a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination, but when this same agency comes up with something favorable to the author's position, the author will cite that same agency as credible support for his argument. "
Vincent Bugliosi
" At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. "
Frederick Douglass
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