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"Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went."	Omar Khayyám
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another."	Thomas Jefferson
"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
"Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement."	George Burton Adams
"Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about."	Sam Ewing
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."	Ernesto "Che" Guevara
"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy."	Roger Nash Baldwin
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."	Joseph Joubert
"The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety."	Charles Robert Darwin
"The common dogma [of fundamentalists] is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity."	G Gaia
"The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it."	André Maurois
"The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight."	Golda Meir
"The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House."	William Jefferson Clinton
"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself."	Clarence Seward Darrow
"The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship."	George Herbert Walker Bush
"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know."	Joe Moore
"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."	Edgar Watson Howe
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Edward Gibbon	Elbert Hubbard	Emile Coue
Erich Fromm	Eric Lustbader	Erma Louise Bombeck
Ernesto "Che" Guevara	Ernest Miller Hemingway	Eugene V. Debs
Euripides	E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings	Frank Moore Colby
Franz Kafka	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	F. Hansen
George Burton Adams	George Foreman	George Herbert Walker Bush
Gerald R. Ford	Golda Meir	Gurdjieff
G Gaia	Hans Albrecht Bethe	Herbert Butterfield
Irving Layton	Isaac Asimov	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
James Corbett	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	James Joyce
James Russel Lowell	Joe Moore	John Locke
John B. Gough	John Fellows Akers	John K. Hutchens
John Paul Jones	Joseph Joubert	J. Deville
J. Martin Kohe	Kathleen Norris	Leonardo da Vinci
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Lord Melbourne	Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marilyn Ferguson
Martin Luther	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Max Lucado
Michael Lews	Michel Leiris	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Napolean Bonaparte	Omar Khayyám	Pan Ku
Paulo Freire	Paxton Blair	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Rita Mae Brown	Roger Nash Baldwin	Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Samuel Butler	Sam Ewing	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Tao Le Ching	Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Alva Edison	Thomas Mincher	T. Lehrer
Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh	William Jefferson Clinton	William Lloyd Garrison