#argument

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. ↗

My life is my argument. ↗

I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months. ↗

— Peter Scott

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Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. ↗

— Robert South

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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

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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. ↗

— Stendhal

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The volume of your voice does not increase the validity of your argument. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control. ↗