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«The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.»
«Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.»
«My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.»
Author: Jack Benny
(Entertainer)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
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«My life is my argument.»
«That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not»
«People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument»
«The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation»
«Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and getshimself killed on the next zebra crossing.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Humor
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«The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Arguments
| Keywords:
argument, deny, dispose, disposes, dispose of, disposing, familiar, formula, The Argument, The Formula
«The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
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