#argument

I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

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Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

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The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry. ↗

— Jim Fowler

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I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

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I will listen to any argument put to me. ↗

— George Osborne

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'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

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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

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I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing. ↗

— Johann Most

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