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• If there is a problem somewhere, this is what happens. Three people will try to do something concrete to settle the issue. Ten people will give a lecture analyzing what the three are doing. One hundred people will commend or condemn the ten for their lecture. One thousand people will argue about the problem. And one person-only one- will involve himself so deeply in the true solution that he is too busy to listen to any of it. Now...which person are you?

  Elias Chacour

  Issues, People, Giving

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• Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.

  Mason Cooley

  May, Facts, Judgment

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• Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

  Mason Cooley

  Issues, People, Argument

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• Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Devil, Casting, Philosopher

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed, and I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.

  Iain Banks

  Heart, Thinking, People

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• I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

  Ian Botham

  Stress, Games, Umpires

  1980 Ian Botham on Cricket.

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• There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

  Michael Lewis

  Art, Views, Identity

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• Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Strong, Leader, World

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 254, 1991.

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• Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. When they fail to come off its clergy simply say that they will be realized later on. Thus, if we have another boom, they will argue that the collapse of capitalism is only postponed. The fact that the greatest booms ever heard of followed Marx's formal prophecy of the downfall of capitalism is already forgotten, just as millions have long since forgotten the early Christian prophecy that the end of the world was at hand. The first Christians accepted postponements as docilely as the Communists of today.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Hands, Long

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.277, Knopf

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• Osteopath--One who argues that all human ills are caused by the pressure of hard bone upon soft tissue. The proof of his theory isto be found in the heads of those who believe it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Tissues, Pressure

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• If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

  Henry Adams

  Queens, Women, Males

  Henry Adams (2017). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.248, BookRix

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• All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.

  Charles Bartlett Johnson

  Art, Silence, Agree

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• I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

  Bruce Willis

  Ideas, Conservative, Sometimes

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• My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.

  Elie Wiesel

  Divorce, Life Is, Questioning

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics.

  Marc Maron

  Sometimes, Controversy, Happens

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• The whole notion of politics is they always present you with this or this or this. I’ll get a newspaper to read between the lines. Why do you have to adhere to prescribed formulas that they have and people argue over them and they’re all in a box. And you watch Fox claw CNN, and CNN claw Fox. Sometimes I catch a piece of the news and it seems insanity to me. I quietly support candidates. I’m not out there banging a drum for candidates. But I have supported a candidate and it’s a whole other world.

  Mel Gibson

  Other Worlds, Cnn, People

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about. It's as pointless that arguing that the sun is hot.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Talking, Magic, Connections

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• Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a logical way of arguing.

  Ann Coulter

  People, Details, Way

  Source: www.lawcrossing.com

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• I was raised Jewish by atheistic-agnostic parents. During this journey, I had people from all walks and all faiths try to help. A Jewish priest who I was friends with wanted to lay hands on me - I didn't ask questions about how - I just said when and where and how often do you want to do it? I didn't argue.

  Mark Nepo

  Journey, Hands, People

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• A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.

  Garrison Keillor

  Hard Work, Eye, Boys

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

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• God is an idea that people believe in and I spend time arguing with people that subscribe to that idea(man made idea).

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Men, Ideas

  Source: www.nairaland.com

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• One problem with politics is that it is a zero sum game, i.e. politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and smaller, by reshuffling pieces of the pie. I think this is destructive. Instead, we should be creating a bigger pie, i.e. funding the science that is the source of all our prosperity. Science is not a zero sum game.

  Michio Kaku

  Zero, Cutting, Thinking

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• When you argue for free markets, you are arguing against the trend.

  Milton Friedman

  Trends, Free Market

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• To argue that we need some technology in order to produce food to tackle hunger is completely blind to the facts on the ground. Actually, what we need is the exact opposite of what GMOs give us. We have to empower farmers to grow food for themselves and plant and grow their own seeds and use practices to deal with weeds and the need for fertility, not from purchased products like a seed or a chemical, but from their own farms, from their own knowledge and skill sets.

  Anna Lappe

  Weed, Technology, Skills

  "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview with Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.

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• I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible, arguing about the Bible, interpreting it. So I don't connect prayer or scriptures with any particular religion so it's not a contradiction in my life.

  Patti Smith

  Prayer, Teenager, Home

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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