#gum

Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use? ↗

— Franny Billingsley

#humor #humor

He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#impressions #rhetoric #education

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into. ↗

— Ben Goldacre

#faith #persuasion #science #faith

#4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with other true believers are the foundational doctrines; the ones you do not share are necessarily less central to the faith. Acknowledging that you and those with whom you disagree will spend eternity together should encourage you to not allow peripheral doctrines to separate you here on earth. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

#divisiveness #unity #faith

Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment – you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot Western mouth. Half the world is starving, and the other’s going, ‘I don’t actually need any nutrition, but it would be good to masticate, just to keep my mind off things. ↗

— Russell Brand

#humor #politics #western-culture #humor

My father would argue two side of a möbius strip. ↗

— Dan Brown

#math-humor #science-humor #humor

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come ↗

— Mario Puzo

#paraphrased #simile #life