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Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.
by Charles Schumer (Politician, American , born in 1950) keywords: arguments, bit, canyon, creates, expediency, life, love, oblivion, path, persuade, river, road, slow, step, tortured, undoing , way Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.
by Michael Servetus (Scientist, Spanish , born in 1511) keywords: any, arguments, attribute, contest, difficult, discover, enough, justification, mistakes, scope, understand, value, want, whose, will , works The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
by George Bernard Shaw (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1856) keywords: against, arguments, become, believe, blind, moment, see, something, suddenly , want I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet, English , born in 1792) keywords: animates, any, arguments, conclusive, infinity, insect, intellect, leaf, meanest, more, some, than, themselves, think, trample, tree, vast , which There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
by William Tecumseh Sherman (Soldier , born in 1970) keywords: arguments, armed, better, between, cannon, capital, classes, come, contest, each, howling, insane, labor, lower, mean, oppose, other, shell, shot, soon, stop, strata, them, tired, will , words All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
by Peter Singer (Philosopher, Australian , born in 1946) keywords: animals, arguments, cannot, equals, fact, hard, man, our, prove, shatter, suffering , superiority Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring.
by Steven Soderbergh (Director, American , born in 1963) keywords: arguments, around, boring, enough, every, few, gets, hang, having, just, lies, long, new, same, set, sex, since, videotape, well , years There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
by Laurence Sterne (Novelist, Irish , born in 1713) keywords: absurd, arguments, been, christian, drawn, endeavoured, however, opinions, scripture, sects, support, their, which , world I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.
by Amy Tan (Novelist, American , born in 1952) keywords: arguments, because, chinese, english, got, her, into, mother, she, think, understand , used They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
by Valentina Tereshkova (Astronaut, Russian , born in 1937) keywords: after, arguments, back, being, desperately, despite, flying, forbade, go, happen, keen, once, protests , space Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.
by Guy Verhofstadt (Statesman, Belgian , born in 1953) keywords: arguments, economic, face, money, more, number, powerful, remain, represent, strength, than, today, us , world Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.
by John Webster (Playwright, English , born in 1578) keywords: actions, arguments, examples, happy, his, man, most, own , virtue Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
by George Whitefield (Clergyman, American , born in 1714) keywords: against, arguments, commands, corrupt, frequently, god, holy, just, men, minds, obedience, pleas, urge, various, which , yielding Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: arguments, everyone, exactly, extremely, good, holds, opinion, same, society , vulgar It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.
by John Wilkins (Clergyman, English , born in 1614) keywords: arguments, convince, disputes, each, excellent, give, hard, men, much, observed, other, rule, should, soft, strive , words
