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Argument Quotes

The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.

Peace War Cold Argument Never

When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument.

DJ You Argument Nice Own Just

Nonfiction, to me, feels like an argument, whereas a novel is like a series of questions.

Me Questions Argument Nonfiction

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

People Wish You Find Argument Side

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.

Time People Argument Know Want Why

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.

Marilyn Ferguson

Change Argument Inside Open Gate Us

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.

War Safety World Argument Seriously

I read the 'Guardian,' because it's a bit like having an argument with a mate. We mostly have the same sensibilities, but where we disagree, it's infuriating.

Argument Same Disagree Where Because

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

Kim Stanley Robinson

People Think Argument Matters Only

The argument can be made: Maybe you want to trust the government, but you shouldn't because you don't know where things are going to go in the future.

Future Trust Government You Argument

The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do about this?' And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people.

People Me Problem Argument Looks

I will make the argument that we are poorly adapted to our current environment. I mean, we did not evolve to sit all day and be exposed to giant amounts of really tasty food.

George M. Church

Food Day Environment Argument Mean

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Man You Argument Human Without Even

I dislike conflict, so I do try and steer clear of arguments. Apart from with my coach. Who I literally have an argument with every day.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Day Conflict Every Day Argument Try

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

David McCullough

Past You Argument Nobody First Make

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

John Dalberg-Acton

Short Long Argument Long Term Used

Until Japan's economy drove off a cliff, there was a running argument in Asia about whether it would be wiser to follow the 'Japan model' - with its megacorporations, jobs for life, state control of strategic industries - or the 'American model' of largely unfettered markets.

David E. Sanger

Life Control American Argument Wiser

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Knowledge Ignorance Anger Argument

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Charles Simmons

Fool Anger Argument First Last

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

Day Egg Argument Salt Without Like

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

Alain de Botton

Success Believe You Argument Say

There are clear cases in which 'understanding' literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

Understanding Argument Need Two Does

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.

Theodore Dalrymple

Time Back Argument Human Difficult

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Love Music Habit Argument Will Race

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