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• A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Tape, Investing, Prudent

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• A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Humble, Play, Soldier

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “The Good Life”

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• Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

  David Crystal

  Technology, People, Mind

  "2b or not 2b?" by David Crystal, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.

  Mortimer Adler

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1982). “The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto”, Touchstone

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• My God loves everybody, and if yours doesn't, that's your prerogative, but don't tell me how to live my life and don't tell my best friends that you're going to take away their rights. Because I will march you into the ground. I will argue you into the ground. I will petition you into the ground. I will not sleep, I will not stop, and neither will so many people in this country and in this world. It's not right.

  Sophia Bush

  Country, Sleep, Gay

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• President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia. And your humble servant hasn't been elected by the people of Russia to be pleasant to someone either. We work, we argue about some issues. We are human. Sometimes one of us gets vexed. But I would like to repeat once again that global mutual interests form a good basis for finding a joint solution to our problems.

  Vladimir Putin

  Humble, Gay, Russia

  "Putin warns West on Syria". www.politico.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil and hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love, and understanding?

  Clarence Darrow

  Heart, Evil, Hatred

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.52, University of Chicago Press

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• Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should be made the central concern of modern politics. Public judgment, in the words of Benjamin Barber, is a function of commonality that can be exercised only by citizens interacting with one another in the context of mutual deliberation and decision.

  Kevin Mattson

  Thinking, Decision, Political

  Kevin Mattson (1994). “Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy During the Progressive Era”, p.4, Penn State Press

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• A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their lives. By associating together for public discussion, citizens learn the skills necessary for the health of a democratic public; listening persuading, arguing, compromising, and seeking common ground. When these skills are nurtured within the institutions of a democratic public, citizens educate themselves in order to make informed political decisions.

  Kevin Mattson

  Order, Skills, Issues

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• You can say I'm a hater. But I would argue I'm a lover. I'm a lover of traditional families and of the right of children to have a mother and father... I would argue that the future of America hangs in the balance, because the future of the family hangs in the balance. Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?

  Rick Santorum

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Senate kills ban on gay marriage" by Ann McFeatters, www.post-gazette.com. July 15, 2004.

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• The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity. The dissenter submits, that no party has a right to compel him to contribute to the support of doctrines, which do not meet his approbation. The rate-payer may as reasonably argue, that no one is justified in forcing him to subscribe towards the maintenance of persons, whom he does not consider deserving of relief.

  Herbert Spencer

  Philosophy, Party, Support

  Herbert Spencer (1843). “The Proper Sphere of Government: a Reprint of a Series of Letters, Originally Published in “The Nonconformist.””, p.10

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• As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing global warming when human experience, geologic data and history, and current cooling can argue otherwise. 'Consensus,' as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science. You know as well as I, the 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Ties, Government, Data

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• The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.

  Al Gore

  Effort, Details, Research

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.40, Routledge

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• The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's right to vote, and so on I would argue that if what is at stake is securing life as we know it, then there can be no bigger struggle that we face.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Struggle, Democracy, Slavery

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• What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an end that has in fact been achieved?

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Lines, Facts, Achieve

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.41, Verso

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• Grief is accepting the reality of what is. That is grief's job and purpose-to allow us to come to terms with the way things really are, so that we can move on. Grief is a gift of God. Without it, we would all be condemned to a life of continually denying reality, arguing or protesting against reality, and never growing from the realities we experience.

  Henry Cloud

  Jobs, Grief, Moving

  Henry Cloud, John Townsend (2006). “God Will Make a Way: What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do”, p.210, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Epic, Belief, Conviction

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• You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there is no aggression.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Argument, Aggression

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• Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Men, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle, Edwin Markham (1842). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.215

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• The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails - aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Long, Departed

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.63, David M Gross

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• If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me.

  Ted Nugent

  Hurt, Sense Of Humor, Ifs

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• The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

  Minna Antrim

  Jealousy, Names, Green

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• At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

  Albert Einstein

  Theory, Waiter, Relativity

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• I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Race, Agreement

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Out of my later years”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• If everyone is getting money, no one is getting disrespected, and no one is getting hurt, no one should be arguing.

  Damon Dash

  Hurt, Get Money, Should

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