Arguing Quotes - Page 24

• The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their "pursuit of happiness" to outright obliterating it.

  Aberjhani

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Impact, Differences

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• Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too)

  Jonathan Stroud

  Sleep, Animal, Understanding

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• Many argue; not many converse.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Respect, Converses

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• See?” I’d whispered to Bones, nudging him with a grin. “He never argues with her. Isn’t that sweet?” A snort preceded his response. “Keep dreaming, pet.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Dream, Sweet, Pet

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• Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nursing, One Direction, Chocolate

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• Even then, more than a year earlier, there were neurons in her head, not far from her ears, that were being strangled to death, too quietly for her to hear them. Some would argue that things were going so insiduously wrong that the neurons themselves initiated events that would lead to their own destruction. Whether it was molecular murder or cellular suicide, they were unable to warn her of what was happening before they died.

  Lisa Genova

  Suicide, Years, Events

  Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Love, Women, Want

  Jennifer Armintrout (2008). “Blood Ties Bundle: Blood Ties Book One: The Turning\Blood Ties Book Two: Possession\Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes\Blood Ties Book Four: All Souls' Night”, MIRA

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• The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you're loyal and faithful, they turn those against you. If you're passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears. Your weak weaknesses are no use to them.... They find the strongest weaknesses you didn't know were yours and use those against you.

  Aidan Chambers

  Strong, Emotional, Loyal And Faithful

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• I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

  Byron Katie

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Hurt

  Twitter post from May 17, 2015

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• There's something behind the decision to choose to lash out at a woman. The answer to how to fix internet trolling is like fixing sexism. How do you do that? I'm of the opinion that discourse helps, that changing people's minds changes people's actions. On a more practical level, I do enjoy sassing back at trolls, because I always win, because my job makes me better at arguing. If I can frustrate or embarrass a troll, then that lodges in that person's brain that trolling me is not a consequence-free hobby.

  Lindy West

  Winning, Decision, Brain

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• The public takes little notice of those who want to abolish abortion. They are dismissed as extremists. If I were to argue that all abortions should be banned, the ethical discussions would go round in circles.... My view is that the only way forward is to argue for a reduction in the time limit... saving some lives is better than saving no lives at all. I hope pro-lifers will come to share my view that some progress is better than no progress.

  Nadine Dorries

  Views, Way Forward, Circles

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• Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.

  Carole Nelson Douglas

  Too Much, Librarian, Knows

  Carole Nelson Douglas (2007). “Cat in a Red Hot Rage: A Midnight Louie Mystery”, p.148, Macmillan

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• The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is right. I want every single person arguing a righteous side of the argument. That makes interesting drama.

  David Fincher

  Drama, Interesting, Sides

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• There's something about looking at Super 8 films that is so evocative. You could argue it's the resolution of the film somehow because they aren't crystal clear and perfect,so there is a kind of gauzy layer between you and what you see. You could argue it's the silence of them. You could say it's the sound of the projector that creates a moodiness. But there's something about looking at analog movies that's infinitely more powerful than digital.

  J. J. Abrams

  Powerful, Perfect, Silence

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

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• Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Stars, Writing

  Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.

  Salman Rushdie

  Men, Challenges, Shapes

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Stupid, Hate, Crazy

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• Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Teaching, Views

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, Ch. 8, 1927.

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• To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

  Augustus

  Men, Good Man, Citizens

  "An Examination of the Isis Cult with Preliminary Exploration into New Testament Studies". Book by Elizabeth A. McCabe, October 29, 2007.

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• I kept arguing that 'love is the most important force, love is the most important force.' So I wanted to show him loving. Sometimes it's dramatic: it means you lay down your life. But sometimes it means making sure someone's trunk is packed and hoping they'll be O.K. at school.

  J. K. Rowling

  School, Mean, Love Is

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• I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

  Liz Phair

  Men, Uncomfortable Feeling, Feelings

  "Trace the arc of Liz Phair's career via her Wall Street Journal piece on Lana Del Rey" by Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. February 6, 2012.

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• It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

  Jon Campbell

  Purpose, Argument, Life Is

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• A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.

  Archibald Cox

  College, Thinking, Issues

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• Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Believe, Loving Someone

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• It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Believe, Belief, Easier

  Samuel R. Delany (1993). “Tales of Nevèrÿon”, p.201, Wesleyan University Press

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