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• Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

  Michael Servetus

  Mistake, Want, Enough

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• A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

  Joseph Addison

  Money, Philosophy, Men

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.80

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• The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even see the evidence that threatens it.

  Anthony Greenwald

  Self, Ego, Needs

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• When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.

  Sophocles

  Blind, Call Me, Prove Me Wrong

  Sophocles (1951). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”

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• There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

  Sean O'Casey

  Intellectual, Passionate, Conviction

  Sean O'Casey (1963). “Under a Colored Cap: Articles Merry and Mournful with Comments and a Song”

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• Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble.

  Terry Pratchett

  Phrases, Asking, Lexicon

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Witches Abroad: (Discworld Novel 12)”, p.173, Random House

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• When I read passages like this, I want to look for the nearest wall to bang my head against.

  S. T. Joshi

  Wall, Want, Bangs

  S. T. Joshi (2003). “The Weird Tale”, p.15, Wildside Press LLC

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• It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress... it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Understanding, Progress, Acting

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 7 : Majority Rules, 1960.

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• When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Children, Husband

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.553, Routledge

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

  Ralph Hartley

  Numbers, Arguing, Unimportant

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• Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.

  Cass Sunstein

  People, Sides, Sometimes

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• We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Soviet Government and of the new order of life. We judge quickly. In most cases only a day passes between the apprehension of the criminal and his sentence. When confronted with evidence criminals in almost every case confess; and what argument can have greater weight than a criminal's own confession.

  Felix Dzerzhinsky

  Fighting, Order, Government

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• A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills to thinking about Einstein and the quantum. What he finds and makes broadly understandable are the riches of Einstein's thinking not about relativity, not about his arguments with Bohr, but about Einstein's deep insights into the quantum world, insights that Stone shows speak to us now with all the vividness and depth they had a century ago. This is a fascinating book, lively, engaging, and strong in physical intuition.

  Peter Galison

  Strong, Book, Writing

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• Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

  Krista Tippett

  Reality, Silence, Doe

  Krista Tippett (2008). “Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters--and How to Talk About It”, p.45, Penguin

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• The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the extent of their leverage makes the financial system fragile, and it clearly and patiently demolishes all the counter-arguments made by the banks and their lobbyists.

  Diane Coyle

  Powerful, Simple, Clothes

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• I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

  Mark Lawrence

  Intelligent, Men, Design

  Mark Lawrence (2014). “Prince of Fools”, p.155, Penguin

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• McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever its contingencies, is itself on a trajectory of values development. McIntosh has well-researched his sources and integrated them with seminal insight.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Historical, Development, Facts

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• I don’t know why liberals want to disarm the law-abiding population, but I do know that not a single argument proffered stands the light of facts. Armed citizens deter far more crimes than the police, and far more lives are saved by the intended victim being armed than are lost in firearm accidents.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Light, Law, Police

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• A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls; it does not sacrifice its knowledge, its view of the truth, to anyone's opinions, threats, wishes, plans.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Knowledge, Sacrifice

  "Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal".

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• The best argument is an undeniably good book.

  Saul Bellow

  Book, Defeat, Good Book

  Saul Bellow (2010). “Saul Bellow: Letters”, p.167, Penguin

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• A soul-winner can do nothing without God. He must cast himself
  on the Invisible, or be a laughing-stock to the devil, who regards
  with utter disdain all who think to subdue human nature with mere words and arguments.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Laughing, Soul

  Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.39, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• You know, there is an argument to be made that these extensions of unemployment benefits keep people from going and finding jobs. In fact there are some studies that have been done that show people stay on unemployment compensation and they don't look for a job until two or three weeks before they know the benefits are going to run out.

  Tom DeLay

  Running, Jobs, Two

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• It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later that our tongues produced landslides, that we become caught in the cracks between what we said and what we meant, until we could not find each other, did not trust the words in our own mouths.

  Hannah Kent

  Broken Heart, Cracks, Weight

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

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• From my mom and dad, because they're happily married for a long time: Just listen. Listen to him. I'm so independent and driven and stubborn. Just let him talk. It's about not being so stubborn and having to win every argument. My parents set a great example. They love each other and take care of each other so much.

  Erin Andrews

  Mom, Dad, Independent

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• Science spotlights three dimensions of nature that point to God. The first is the fact that nature obeys laws. The second is the dimension of life, of intelligently organized and purpose-driven beings, which arose from matter. The third is the very existence of nature. But it is not science alone that has guided me. I have also been helped by a renewed study of the classical philosophical arguments.

  Antony Flew

  Philosophical, Law, Three

  "One Flew out of the atheists’ nest" by William West, www.mercatornet.com. April 1, 2009.

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