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~ We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own ~
~ Lower your voice and strengthen your argument ~
~ Since when was an emotional argument won by logic ~
~ The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably ~
~ All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. ~
~ It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them ~
~ Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments ~
~ Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. ~
~ Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about ~
~ 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 ~
~ The common dogma 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 ~
~ With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost ~
~ I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. ~
~ Silence is argument carried out by other means ~
~ I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. 'That was fun,' I said. 'You bet it was,' said Nick. 'Let's climb higher.' 'No,' I said. 'I think we should be heading back now.' 'We have time,' Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story ~
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