#arguing

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#any #arguing #been #difficulties #doors

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#arguing #i #make #mistake #never

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal. ↗

— Trisha Goddard

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Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. ↗

— George Herbert

#calm #error #fault #makes #truth

I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea. ↗

— John Hewson

#australia #been #better #i #korea

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#about #arguing #good #good man #man

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#arguing #because #generally #getting #hard

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#arguing #believing #debating #lives #man

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#been #between #clash #history #human

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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