#argument

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives. ↗

— Criss Jami

#battle #bias #combat #discernment #disputes

I guess when I think about it, one of the things I like to dramatise, and what is sometimes funny, is someone coming unglued. I don't consider myself someone who is making the argument that I support these choices. I just think it can be funny. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#argument #choices #coming #consider #funny

I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial. ↗

— David Attenborough

#argument #astounded #atmosphere #balance #changed

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. ↗

— Roger Bacon

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For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#argument #avoid #burns #experiment #fire

It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives. ↗

— Ed Balls

#change #changed #country #error #had

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#convincing #irony #like #needed #scorching

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#automatically #conservative #economy #just #like

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#argument #atmosphere #bad #bad thing #debate

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, "Who do you think you are?" ↗

— Ray Combs

#get #into #never #person #say