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• What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth

  Mary Jo Bang

  Mind, Desire, Wire

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• It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands of years. It is that we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption. Throughout the centuries the common thread in the arguments against eating animals is the fact that since we have no nutritional requirement for the flesh or fluids of animals, killing them to simply satisfy our taste-buds or habits or customs amounts to senseless slaughter, and senseless slaughter is no small thing.

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Years

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• Paul Davies takes us on a logically and rhetorically compelling modern search for human agency. This outstanding analysis, well informed by naturalistic views of our evolved affective nature, is the kind of philosophical work that is essential for a field to move forward when ever-increasing findings from modern science are inconsistent with traditional philosophical arguments. This book is for all who wish to immerse themselves in the modern search for free will. It is steeped in the rich liqueur of current scientific and philosophical perspectives and delusions.

  Jaak Panksepp

  Moving, Book, Philosophical

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• It is not your right—based on YOUR traditions, YOUR customs and YOUR habits—to deny animals THEIR freedom so you can harm them, enslave them and kill them. Thats not what rights are about. Thats injustice. There is no counter-argument to veganism. Accept it. Apologize for the way youve been living. Make amends and move forward.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Moving, Animal, Rights

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• You certainly wouldn’t want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place.

  Peter van Inwagen

  Believe, Want, Firsts

  Peter Van Inwagen (1998). “The Possibility of Resurrection and Other Essays in Christian Apologetics”

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• The man who cannot listen to an argument which opposes his views either has a weak position or is a weak defender of it. No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding. And it has been wisely said that the man who knows only half of any question is worse off than the man who knows nothing of it. He is not only one-sided but his partisanship soon turns him into an intolerant and a fanatic. In general it is true that nothing which cannot stand up under discussion or criticism is worth defending.

  James E. Talmage

  Men, Views, Criticism

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• What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Intuition, Forget, Obvious

  Rebecca Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.17, Pantheon

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• Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an option. When you can't think of a good rebuttal for your opponent's argument, you can always punch them in the face.

  James S.A. Corey

  Running, Simple, Thinking

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• All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.

  Hiroyuki Nishimura

  Information, Accurate, Treated

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• Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasures in favour of much more difficult ones ... successful literary works are achieved anxieties, not releases from anxieties.

  Harold Bloom

  Pain, Memories, Struggle

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• The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is right. I want every single person arguing a righteous side of the argument. That makes interesting drama.

  David Fincher

  Drama, Interesting, Sides

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• There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks

  Bob Geldof

  Children, Men, Support

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• I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

  W. C. Fields

  Emotion, Invited

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• Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Believe, Opposites

  Address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars 103rd National Convention, delivered 26 August 2002, Nashville, Tennessee

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• One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.

  Robert Benchley

  Baseball, Running, Men

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, Glendower Media

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• How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

  Aristotle

  Disputes, Term, Paragraph

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• A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

  Angela Carter

  Eggs, Literature, Salt

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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• The notion of rights is linked with the notion of sharing out, of exchange, of measured quantity. It has a commercial flavor, essentially evocative of legal claims and arguments. Rights are always asserted in a tone of contention; and when this tone is adopted, it must rely upon force in the background, or else it will be laughed at.

  Simone Weil

  Rely Upon, Rights, Tone

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to an extreme," not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Freedom Of Speech, Strange

  "On Liberty". Book by John Stuart Mill, 1859.

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• One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason.

  Thomas Sowell

  Education, Years, People

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.403, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

  Evan Esar

  Listening, Sides, No One Listening

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• In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is that it protects the perineum from injury, a protection accomplished by slicing through perineal skin, connective, tissue, and muscle.

  Henci Goer

  Medicine, Skins, Crowns

  Henci Goer (1995). “Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature”, p.276, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• I will say that what’s been funny is, since the lightsaber’s come out, I cannot tell you how many contradictory emails I have received from people who have both defended it with unbelievably detailed graphicsI’ve gotten things that are nuts, and I’ve gotten people who’ve shown how it’ll kill you and how it doesn’t make any sense.  It’s been the funniest thing to see the arguments that have developed over this thing.

  J. J. Abrams

  Nuts, People, Email

  "Exclusive: J.J. Abrams Talks STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS and That New Lightsaber" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. February 5, 2015.

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• Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

  Anton Chekhov

  Russia, Suffering, Poverty

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.

  Salman Rushdie

  Death, People, Imagination

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