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Edward Gibbon: “I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
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Henry Ward Beecher: “Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Thomas Paine: “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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Heywood Broun: “A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
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Gay Hendricks: “Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.
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Gay Hendricks: “Arguments are often like melodramas -- they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.
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Gay Hendricks: “One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.
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Sam Adams: “It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue.
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Charles Caleb Colton: “We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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Alice Miller: “One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.
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William Blake: “When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
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Abraham Lincoln: “When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say -- and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: “Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
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Daniel Dennett: “There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
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Jonathan Kozol: “Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher
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Jack Lynch: “Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: “Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
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Colette: “My dear sir, they don't debate. Each of them merely issues an ultimatum, and in what a tone! It all goes to show what extraordinary people they are, each more unequivocal than the other.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay: “Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...
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Virginia Woolf: “When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.
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Mary Pettibone Poole: “To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,
requires brains.
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Leonardo da Vinci: “Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
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David Hume: “Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
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Jonathan Swift: “Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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