#argument

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. ↗

— Will Rogers

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The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. ↗

— Elihu Root

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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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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. ↗

— William James

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What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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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

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AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap. ↗

— Calvin Klein

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The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right. ↗

— William Ruckelshaus

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