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"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own." -- Aesop "Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute." -- Josh Billings "People generally quarrel because they cannot argue." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton "The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you." -- Kin Hubbard "It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." -- Jeseph Joubert "I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me." -- Dudley Field Malone "He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak." -- Michel de Montaigne "There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees." -- Michel de Montaigne "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." -- John Morley "A man never tells you anything until you contradict him." -- George Bernard Shaw "Be a student, not a follower. Don't just go do what someone says. Take interest in what someone says, then debate it, ponder it and consider it from all angles." -- Jim Rohn "Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice." -- Stanley Horowitz "The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress." -- Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842 "Unless you include the spiritual aspect into the dialogue, the conclusion is bound to be flawed, because there is a missing component in the equation." -- Colin Jury "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 “Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.” -- Glen Beaman "If any consensus is achievable it could and should first be about how to contend over the moral differences that divide - a public agreement over how to publicly disagree. When consensus is realized at this plane, genuine disagreement becomes an accomplishment; authentic debate becomes a virtue." -- James Davison Hunter "Never argue with a fool -- people might not know the difference." -- Anonymous