No truly great one ever argues with a crowd. He chooses out one man, and speaks to him, him only.
How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
Never argue with stupid people; they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.
It should surprise no one that I'm out arguing for small government, reduced spending and getting our financial house in order, along with reasonable regulations and no more.
While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.
It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.
It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.
Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with idiots.
And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.
The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.
I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!
Cal: [standing in the rain after Emily argues with him] What a cliché.
