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Letter "R" » refuting
«Absurdity refutes itself»
«Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.»
«People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.»
«Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased; thus do we refute entropy»
«Who can refute a sneer?»
«The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
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«When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.»
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
(Author, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
comment, commented, crux, flagrantly, formidable, refute, refutes, refuting, Something Stupid, superfluous
«The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
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«If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
Judaism
| Keywords:
articles, Articles of, article of faith, inventing, obliged, refute, refutes, refuting, Two thousand
«Boswell: It is impossible to refute it - Johnson, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, answered, 'I refute it thus»
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