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Letter "A" » Arguments
«The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have»
«The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.»
«Use soft words and hard arguments.»
«When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
| About:
Arguments,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
attempting, complicated, opaque, philosopher, plainly, tedious, The Philosopher, true to
«The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Arguments
| Keywords:
apparent, escape hatch, gracefully, hatch, hatching, opponent, swing, swing over
«The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Arguments
| Keywords:
declamation, declamations, empty-headed, feather, guinea, soundest, vacuum, velocities, velocity
«The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Arguments,
Belief
| Keywords:
arguments, suddenly
«We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own»
«We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself»
«Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers»
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