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For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#argument #avoid #burns #experiment #fire

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#back #every #gets #later #lynching

It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives. ↗

— Ed Balls

#change #changed #country #error #had

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. ↗

— Christopher Buckley

#humor #right #thank-you-for-smoking #wrong #beauty

There are no nudists in cold areas. ↗

— Tsugumi Ohba

#humor #tsugumi-ohba #death

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

— Steve Maraboli

#validity #voice #volume #experience

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