#arguing

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions. ↗

— Karen Hughes

#asking #asking questions #college #good #i

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#about #arguing #good #good man #man

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#arguing #because #generally #getting #hard

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#arguing #believing #debating #lives #man

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#been #between #clash #history #human

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#agree #arguing #cannot #deeply #definition

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#arguing #feel #hear #him #i

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#divine #knowledge #mission #perennial #possessed

In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite. ↗

— Eric Liu

#action #affirmative #affirmative action #arguing #cal

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#argument #available #east #good #inevitable