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Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.
Dan Savage
Argument
Preaching
Triumphs
Well
Arms
Does
Discourse
Choir
Reason
Actually
Right
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan Poe
Religion
Charity
Strong
Christ
Crime
Made
Men
Argument
About
Only
Feel
Understand
Which
Against
You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Truth
You
People
Argument
Believe
Lying
Way
More
More People
Rational
Rationalize
Proposition
True
Most
Obtain
Make
Passionate
Were
Begin
Cannot
Flattery
Bribery
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Francis Beaumont
Silence
Overcome
Argument
More
Noble
Than
Avoid
Injury
Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.
Freeman Dyson
Science
Argument
Become
Say
Wrong
Because
Climate
Politically
Politically Incorrect
Different
Unfortunately
Things
Incorrect
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
You
Yourself
Speak
Argument
Above
Feel
Mass
Height
Your
Raise
But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
H. Rap Brown
People
Law
Black
Argument
Country
Fall
Down
Those
Neither
About
Morally
Laws
Make
Talking
Around
Go
Nor
Up
Did
Legally
Same
Confined
Them
Us
Keep
A wise man, when he writes a book, sets forth his arguments fully and clearly; an enlightened ruler, when he makes his laws, sees to it that every contingency is provided for in detail.
Han Fei
Wise
Man
Wise Man
Book
Argument
Every
Sets
Ruler
Detail
Laws
Sees
Writes
He
Clearly
Makes
Contingency
His
Provided
Forth
Fully
Enlightened
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
Herbert Spencer
Nature
Property
Argument
Our
Fact
Communist
Theory
Elements
Suggested
Desire
Fatal
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
Isaac Mayer Wise
Best
You
Bible
Argument
Preach
Proof
Never
Support
Containing
Without
Text
Which
Elaborate
Theme
Your
Sermon
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.
Jascha Heifetz
You
People
Matter
Some People
Argument
Wish
Other
Side
Find
Some
Always
Were
Your
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
Jean de La Fontaine
Best
Argument
Strongest
Always
If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.
Jermain Defoe
You
Speak
Sometimes
Argument
Important
Right Things
Someone
Friends
Close
Want
Them
Your
Keep
Right
Things
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
John Tillotson
Great
Mind
Argument
Able
Great Mind
Bear
Provocation
Forgive
Reason
Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who is most offended.
Kevin DeYoung
Debate
Offended
Try
Argument
Country
Sorry
Our
Out
Moral
About
Shared
Ideas
Most
Annoying
Discuss
Currency
Just
Really
Figure
Who
Last
Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.
Leon Panetta
People
Political
Try
Argument
Corner
Kind
Put
Red
Lines
Used
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Good
You
Logical
Win
Matter
Brilliant
Will
Argument
Sense
Conviction
Believe
Other
Case
Something
Advancing
Dead
How
Person
Your
Reasoning
Chain
Elegant
The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.
Lysander Spooner
King
Superior
Argument
Jews
Followers
Rather
Attempted
He
Support
Supposition
His
Than
Being
Desertion
Jesus
I like arguments.
Prince
Argument
Like
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
Ramakrishna
Faith
You
Will
Pure
Argument
Energy
Otherwise
Slowly
Firm
Devotional
Practices
Without
Go
Brain
Discussions
Little
Muddled
Your
Useless
Wasting
Desire
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Good
Censorship
Argument
Bad
Moral
About
More
More Or Less
Quickly
Pious
Accusation
Patriotic
Whether
Less
Who
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
Robert Benchley
Argument
Party
Fall
Neither
About
Fact
Somewhat
Most
Knows
Talking
Am
Opponent
Nor
Impressive
Owing
Short
Being
Which
Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.
Robert Half
Yourself
Win
Argument
Convincing
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Rose Kennedy
Argument
Nothing
Bad
Like
Dear
Than
Hold
View
Less
I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!
Steve Harvey
You
Win
Try
Girl
Argument
Sister
Tell
Never
Know
She
Boy
Going
Just
Wants
Them
Younger
Younger Sister
Teach
Rough
Play
Her
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
Swami Sivananda
Religion
Science
Argument
Only
Both
Beyond
Inwardly
Real
Metaphysics
Go
Region
Lived
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