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“The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.” Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
“He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.” William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
“They weren’t making much sense; she decided they were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but which can go on forever, if both parties are willing.” Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.” John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
“Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.” George Orwell, Animal Farm
“No arguments will give courage to the coward.” Aesop, Aesop's Fables
“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.” George Bernard Shaw, The Philanderer
“I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.” Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“What can you do . . . against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?” George Orwell, 1984
“I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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