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• No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.

  Merrill Markoe

  Country, Opportunity, Facts

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• It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

  Kofi Annan

  Reality, Law, Economic Globalization

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Never argue, repeat your assertion.

  Robert Owen

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Life, Change, Being Strong

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• A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Faith, Believe

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.161

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• The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

  Wilkie Collins

  Law, Brain, Use

  WILKIE COLLINS (1870). “MAN AND WIFE”, p.150

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• It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

  Leader, Too Much

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• People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!

  Deborah Bull

  Skills, People, Acting

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• It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

  Bob Barr

  Law, Challenges, Adequate

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• The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

  William Ralph Inge

  Freedom, Technology, Enemy

  End of an Age (1948) ch. 4

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• Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

  Rose Kennedy

  Good Morning, Marriage, Good Night

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• When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.

  Al Gore

  Reality, Your Side, Law

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• You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

  Bill Bryson

  Couple, Cities, Islands

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.15, VNR AG

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• There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.

  Susan Powter

  Needs, World, Gender

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• Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

  Johnny Carson

  New York, Humorous, Taken

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• Men argue. Nature acts.

  Voltaire

  Nature, Men, Climate Change

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.462, Voltaire

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• Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes.

  Seth Godin

  People, Might, Easier

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• The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.

  Ralph Hartley

  Numbers, Argument, Unimportant

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• The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

  Andre Maurois

  Opinion, Argument, Difficult

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.

  Stephen Covey

  Mistake, People, Weakness

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.

  Scott Adams

  Years, Guy, Important

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• Don't cuss. Don't argue with the officials. And don't lose the game.

  John Heisman

  Football, College, Games

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• I never argue with people about movies.

  Andrew Sarris

  People

  "Hail the Conquering Hero: Andrew Sarris" by Kent Jones, www.filmcomment.com. May/June 2005.

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• Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

  Mark Twain

  Suggestions, Married, Married Women

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.516, Courier Corporation

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• The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Love, Drinking, People

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.128, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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