Quotes by category:Arguing

Roy received my comments with a forced smile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?" Hardy seemed amused by my outspokenness. "Keeps the arguing to a minimum," he replied. "No point in trying when I know she's going to win.

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Many argue; not many converse. by Louisa May Alcott

Many argue; not many converse.

Louisa May Alcott

converses respect arguing

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, on... by Ludwig van Beethoven

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it wou... by Maggie Stiefvater

I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.

Maggie Stiefvater

would-be arguing thinking

Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way... by Malcolm Gladwell

Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie.

Malcolm Gladwell

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I can't believe this, I'm arguing with a woman! by Mandy Patinkin

I can't believe this, I'm arguing with a woman!

i-can arguing believe

If [Donald] Trump loses narrowly, it will make it much harder for the GOP to unify. Under that scenario, the Trumpists are likely to argue that the election was lost because the Republican establishment failed to rally around the choice their own voters made.

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With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?

Marcello Mastroianni

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I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics.

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We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don'... by Malcolm X

We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.

kings arguing may

Because if you look at the debates now, and I have answered it except for 90 seconds by and large it's been viewed as every debate I have had I have been among the best people. And in some cases people argue the best person in those debates. I have been asked questions you never could have anticipated.

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Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

Maria Edgeworth

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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive. by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

do-not-fear arguing

But then again, those who argue against squatting and deadlifting on the same day may just be pussies.

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Beyond Bookchin”, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins; “We are inclined to think of hunters and gatherers as poor because they don’t have anything, perhaps better to think of them for that reason as free.

Marshall Sahlins

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Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

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... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

Mary Russell Mitford

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Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon. by Mark Twain

Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.

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Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue h... by Mason Cooley

Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

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