#argument

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. ↗

— Brit Hume

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Truth springs from argument amongst friends. ↗

— David Hume

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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 My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date. ↗

— John Hume

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For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn. ↗

— William Banting

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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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What we've been hearing over and over again is that the reason Republicans are opposed to the surtax is because of the concern of its impact on job creation. Well, if you carve out employers, you take away that argument. ↗

— Susan Collins

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The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry. ↗

— Jim Fowler

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I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

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I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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