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• The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

  David Baltimore

  People, Calling, Cloning

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• Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence

  Dennis Prager

  Believe, People, Existence

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• Being gay is a natural normal beautiful variation on being human. Period. End of subject. Therefore, any argument which says differently is an immoral supremacist one. Call it out as such. ... Be outraged, offended, angry and intolerant of any discussion or any one who describes you as unequal, undeserving or unnatural for being just as you are.

  Larry Kramer

  Beautiful, Gay, Normal

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• The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

  George Carlin

  Men, Answers, Lasts

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• Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

  Laozi

  Acceptance, White, Black

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• A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"

  Graeme Simsion

  Errors, Hands, Rooms

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets, because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans make with their dollars and their ballots and announce - yes, announce - that Americans are sorely in need of more supervision by... liberals.

  George Will

  Thinking, Class, America

  "Dems Vs. Wal-Mart". www.jewishworldreview.com. September 14, 2006.

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• A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

  Aesop

  Men, Trying, Sides

  "Aesops Fables: A Collection of Aesop's Fables".

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• How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

  Edmond Jabes

  Bird, Doubt, Nests

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• The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.

  Jackson Katz

  Girl, Boys, Men

  Jackson Katz (2006). “The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and and How All Men Can Help”, p.80, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting your own rights in jeopardy - quite aside from undermining any moral basis for respecting anybody's rights. You are opening the floodgates to arbitrary power. And once you open the floodgates, you can't tell the water where to go.

  Thomas Sowell

  Rights, Water, Arbitrary

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• Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wall, Men, Hair

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• How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself? What tremendous feat of dialectic could carry with it a tenth the power of a single gutted ship with its ghastly cargo?

  Isaac Asimov

  War, Men, Looks

  Isaac Asimov (1952). “Triangle: The currents of space; Pebble in the sky; The stars, like dust”

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• The sum total or Ishwara may be said to be All-good, Almighty, and Omniscient. These are obvious qualities, and need no argument to prove, from the very fact of totality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Quality, Needs, May

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3880, Manonmani Publishers

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• As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy, may have traded place with that of religion. Consider Einstein's famous equation E = mc2. Nothing of matter dies but continues on in another form, elsewhere. The church divines and theologians for two thousand years have devised arguments and "proofs" of immortality but nothing equal to this.

  Huston Smith

  Years, Two, Religion

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• Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God's Spirit prepares the way.

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Heart, Accomplish Nothing

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.285, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.

  Banksy

  Art, Alive, Painting

  "Banksy (Yes, Banksy) on Thierry, EXIT Skepticism & Documentary Filmmaking as Punk". Interview with AJ Schnack, edendale.typepad.com. December 21, 2010.

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• Win through your actions, never through argument.

  Robert Greene

  Winning, Action

  Twitter post from Nov 28, 2016

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• The least Anararchic person in that conversation is the person saying 'you can't be an anarchist if you believe in god.' Because that's not an argument, it's just a statement. Why would somebody accept that? Because they either bow to your authority or they are afraid of your aggression. That's threatening to be another kind of ruler. Does that make any sense?

  Stefan Molyneux

  Believe, Doe, Bows

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• The first step in understanding the sex industry is to understand the customers, the johns. ... These men have already violated moral standards - and they know it. Talking about right and wrong aren't compelling arguments for them. They are criminals who have chosen to break the law and hurt people, many of them young people.

  Joseph Parker

  Hurt, Sex, Men

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• Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

  Roland Allen

  Missionary Zeal, Waiting, Intellectual

  Roland Allen, David M. Paton (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.35, The Lutterworth Press

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• Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

  Democritus

  Mind, Victory, Want

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• The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an indirect rational argument. And the emotional faculties are more highly developed in most men than the rational, paradoxically or especially even in those who regard themselves as intellectuals.

  Milton Friedman

  Simple, Men, Emotional

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• People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

  J. C. Ryle

  People, May, Holy

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.308, Editora Dracaena

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• A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Missionary, Symbols

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.7, Editora Dracaena

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