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Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

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.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

Once again we have misleading climate change pronouncements being based on data errors, data errors detected by non-UN, non-IPCC, non-peer-reviewed external observers. This is exactly what happens when you base your arguments on 'consensus science' and not scientific fact.

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.