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- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
- Chief Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the essential and most valid objections against the act of faith is that it is irrational, inasmuch as it offends against the syllogistic rule that the conclusion of an argument shall contain nothing more than the premises.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
- February
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met fred rogers in 1998, when 'Esquire' assigned me a story about him for a special issue on American heroes. I last spoke with him on Christmas Day 2002, when I called him to talk about an argument I'd had with my cousin; he died two months later, on February 27, 2003.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.
- Morals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably not desirable. After all, our opponents are human. The proper use of an ad hominem argument, however, still requires evidence to back it up.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel ashamed to be loud, which is an argument I've had with lots of men, who thought I was too sassy and unladylike.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The argument that most lawmakers make about graffiti is that it's illegal because it's an eyesore, but you could easily argue that a lot of advertising is an eyesore.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions.
- Definitely
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is definitely an argument that Sergio Aguero is the Premier League's best ever striker.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the intelligence out there must be artificial intelligence. We keep looking for critters like us living on a planet like ours, where in fact the majority of the intelligence out there is not biological. That would be my argument.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
- Neither
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.
- Mutual Funds
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more, we have been able to present the argument that recruitment of child soldiers is a social breakdown that leads to atrocities, because that's why they get them.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social systems have values - arguments baked into their design. For example, Twitter's core argument seems to be, 'Everything should be public, and messages should find the largest audience possible.' Snapchat's might be, 'Communication should be private and ephemeral.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people want to know why did I leave the BBC: did I have an argument with them? No! I had 13 wonderful years. But it was time. Since I left university, I'd only ever worked for the BBC. It was simply time.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.
- Bourbon
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing - some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey - shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to school to get herself a teaching certificate.
- Nov 07, 2020
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.
- Stop
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all want our border to be secure. However, certain individuals use this argument to stop us from ever enacting immigration reform.
- Violence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opposition to immigration is an emotional argument, and human beings are emotional, not robots powered by data.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, there is some evidence that migration can slightly depress wages at the bottom end of the labour market, but that's an argument for a genuine living wage, for ensuring all workers are employed on the same terms and conditions, and for extending unionisation.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political linguists have argued that the right often uses stories to make an argument, while the left falls back on facts and statistics.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be hard to find a decent argument that we would have been better off without these inventions.
- Frequent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
She felt Britain should not be so dependent on coal. She was in favour of building up nuclear energy to break the dependence on coal, and the main opposition to nuclear came from the environment movement. Mrs. Thatcher thought she could trap them with the carbon emissions argument.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to judge a piece of criticism by how smart I find the argument. This, I know,, is not how everyone does it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy a good reasoned argument. I love the power of logic.
- Peer Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Caving into blather and peer pressure never bolstered anyone's argument.
- Courtroom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Courtroom is a battlefield, and oral argument requires a fair amount of verbal jousting and sparring with the Justices.
- Conscription
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental Europe and began seriously threatening our own shores and safety, it became much easier to denounce any anti-war agitation and argument as inherently irresponsible and unpatriotic.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
The argument that any income redistribution is tantamount to socialism, and that socialism has always been unAmerican, has helped legitimise keeping taxes on America's very wealthy very low.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't argue if drug companies create drugs that can cure humans and charge lots of money for them, even though we all have these diseases. It will be pretty hard to make a different argument for genes.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent nearly two decades as a social worker and an educator with kids. So, my whole life has been about helping middle-class families. So it's just kind of a hollow argument to say I'm not a family person.
- Legs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frankly, the idea that exposed legs are some sort of sexual provocation is an argument one would expect to hear from a religious fundamentalist, not a feminist.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are in the year 2013, and racism is still amongst us and is still a problem. It's not simply an argument for the History Channel or something that belongs to the past or something that only happens in other countries.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states.
- Punished
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- Nov 07, 2020
My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Siobhan left, we never fell out or had a huge argument. She just wanted to move to America and do something different.
- Dover
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vast majority of people in academia, especially at the administrative level, have so little confidence in their ability to make an argument for their liberal cause, they choose to keep conservatives from making their own case at all. It's pathetic, cowardly, unconstitutional and completely predictable.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Facebook has become the richest and most powerful publisher in history by replacing editors with algorithms - shattering the public square into millions of personalised news feeds, shifting entire societies away from the open terrain of genuine debate and argument while they make billions from our valued attention.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the most common argument against the advocates of cancel culture is that they're lame and uncreative - and I think they generally are.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
- Definitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument.
- Security
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because the speech is an argument, and a great speech makes an argument well, the act of making that argument is a really important part of how the policy process coalesces and solidifies both for the candidate and also the people serving that candidate.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020