#argument

Observe which side resorts to the most vociferous name-calling and you are likely to have identified the side with the weaker argument and they know it. ↗

— Charles R. Anderson

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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. ↗

— Omar Khayyam

#argument #came #did #doctor #door

There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

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I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application. ↗

— George Saunders

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What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it. ↗

— Peter Singer

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That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#argument #debate #instead #missing #sorts

I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy? ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument. ↗

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

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Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

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