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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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My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed. ↗

— Jennifer Tilly

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We must reinforce argument with results. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

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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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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

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The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. ↗

— Lord Hailsham

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First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. ↗

— David McCullough

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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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