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• I love being married. It's great. But I hate arguing. I hate fighting. You know what I do now? When we get in an argument, I just take her side against me. It's just easier; it goes quicker. She's like, "What's wrong with you?" And I'm like, "I know! Damn it! Argh!"

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Hate, Fighting

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• You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.

  K. J. Bishop

  Jobs, Sound, Tools

  K.J. Bishop (2004). “The Etched City”, p.99, Spectra

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• You fight to win; you argue to achieve agreement.

  Jay Heinrichs

  Fighting, Winning, Agreement

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• Polak, a psychiatrist, has applied a behavioral and anthropological approach to alleviating poverty, developed by studying people in their natural surroundings. He argues that there are three mythic solutions to poverty eradication: donations, national economic growth, and big businesses. Instead, he advocates helping the poor earn money through their own efforts of developing low-cost tools that are effective and profitable.

  Amy Lockwood

  People, Effort, Growth

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• Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.

  Amy Lockwood

  Stars, Poverty, Sides

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• It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.

  Julian Ovenden

  Singing, Musical, Style

  "Indepth Interview: Julian Ovenden Talks Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies, Sunday in Paris, Downton Abbey, Smash, 1st Night & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. April 20, 2013.

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• I think if you make a good movie people walk away arguing.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, People, Good Movie

  "Angelina Jolie Quashes Rumors Of A Secret Wedding And Admits To Fears About Writing And Directing Her First Feature Film". Vanity Fair Interview, www.vanityfair.com. August 30, 2011.

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• I think nobody alive today is a more powerful agent of conversion than someone like Mother Teresa. You can refute arguments but not her life. When she came to the National Prayer Breakfast and lectured President Clinton about abortion, he had nothing to say to her. He can't argue with a saint. It's too bad there isn't an easier way, because becoming a saint is not the easiest thing in the world. It's much easier to become an apologist or a philosopher or a theologian.

  Peter Kreeft

  Mother, Powerful, Prayer

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• Boris Nemtsov and I began to argue after Putin's return to the presidency in 2012. In my opinion, there was no longer a realistic chance to achieve regime change through peaceful political means, or real elections. Boris, on the other hand, never lost this hope. He felt that my assessment was premature and said: "You have to live a long time to see changes in Russia." He was deprived of that opportunity.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The first sign of a 'smoking gun,' they argue, may be a mushroom cloud.

  Judith Miller

  Gun, Clouds, Mushrooms

  "Threats And Responses: The Iraqis; U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest For A-Bomb Parts" by Judith Miller and Michael R. Gordon, www.nytimes.com. September 8, 2002.

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• People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that all philosophical intuitions about what nature is going to do fail.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Philosophical, People, Intuition

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• The spread of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat facing the country-and I would argue facing humanity.

  Joe Biden

  Country, Humanity, Nuclear

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• You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Running, Sex

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Plato, Argument, Dramatic

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• Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

  Hugh Prather

  Passion, Certain, Convinced

  Hugh Prather, James Baldwin (1983). “Notes to Myself”

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• I'm not a policy expert - I am only arguing that there is more to an education than an economic ticket.

  Rebecca Mead

  Experts, Tickets, Economic

  "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.

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• Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share. You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.

  Adam Gopnik

  Ideas, Giving, Feelings

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Party, Writing, Order

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• I argue with myself, get mad at myself, throw myself around the room and then apologize to myself.

  Jim Cummings

  Mad, Rooms, Apologizing

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• I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.

  Emily Gould

  Meaningful, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We simply argue that climate change consequences was one of the impacts, but interestingly enough, even though a major effort was made in 2008 to try and resurrect the problem over food, now the consequences of the civil war are making the situation even worse.

  Chris Barrie

  War, Impact, Effort

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• No one can argue with a testimony, it is not a debatable issue. It is there to be accepted or rejected.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Issues, Accepted, Rejected

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• To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Ignorance, Giving, Intuition

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• There are those who argue that the concept of human rights is not applicable to all cultures. We in the National League for Democracy believe that human rights are of universal relevance. But even those who do not believe in human rights must certainly agree that the rule of law is most important. Without the rule of law there can be no peace.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Believe, Rights, Law

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