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• Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn't any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Different, Opinion

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• I love a good argument and sometimes I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut if I think someone is wrong... I've always fought for what I believe in, and I don't quit until I have accomplished what I set out to do.

  Kenny Wormald

  Believe, Thinking, Hard Times

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• I don't like watchingpeople get shot so I would be a little skittish about that - squeamish, but I must say, I don't think the argument that this is going to offend Muslims is a legitimate argument.

  Jedediah Bila

  Thinking, Would Be, Littles

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• News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state.

  Leslie Moonves

  Church, News, Television

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• I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.

  Adam Michnik

  Thinking, Political, Way

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• The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury?

  Ezra Heywood

  Kings, Men, Thinking

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• I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

  Allan Kaprow

  Art, Names, Wish

  Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.21, Univ of California Press

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• You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.

  Charlie Munger

  Best Love, Ideas, Challenges

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• If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Two, Four

  Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1959). “The collected works of Abraham Lincoln”

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• Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Intellectual, Fiction, Stories

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• Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Climate, Doe, May

  Alister E. McGrath (2013). “The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis”, p.134, John Wiley & Sons

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• It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

  Lloyd Cutler

  Lawyer, Responsible, Made

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• Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed and - and this is the key bit of the argument - which then legitimizes violence in their supposed defense.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Keys, Defense, World

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• Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Islam extremists than they might like to think, for it's the very same argument of course advanced by Al-Qaida. And they do have it wrong. We need to work with mainstream Islam.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Thinking, Islam, Needs

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• In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Football, College, Years

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• Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.

  Rene Descartes

  Challenges, Looks, Reputation

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• It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.

  William Butler Yeats

  Plato, Eye, Imagination

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.418, Hayes Barton Press

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• The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of nature free from the hand of man. The argument gets at the heart of what the loss of nature will mean to us....God seems to be insisting that we are not the center of the universe, that he is quite happy if it rains where there are no people - that God is quite happy with places where there are no people, a radical departure from our most ingrained notions.

  Bill McKibben

  Jobs, Rain, Book

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• Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.

  Sterling W Sill

  Eye, Fighting, Winning

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• Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stubborn, Serious, Heat

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• Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

  Winston Churchill

  Long, Unity, Painting

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Anticipation, Anticipate, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

  William Shakespeare

  Integrity, Important Hamlet, Quarrels

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 53

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• The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.

  William H. Gray III

  School, America, Minorities

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• My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.

  Lane Kirkland

  People, Ink, Newspapers

  Quoted in David Olive Business Babble (1993).

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