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"Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement." George Burton Adams 4.0000 average rating  
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." Alfred Adler 4.5926 average rating  
"After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee! Whereupon Winston [Churchill] answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it." John Fellows Akers 4.6875 average rating  
"When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph." A. Alvarez 4.7692 average rating  
"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments." Isaac Asimov 4.6429 average rating  
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." Marcus Aelius Aurelius 4.8636 average rating  
"Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world-the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism." Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe 3.8571 average rating  
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order." Sir Francis Bacon 3.8571 average rating  
"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy." Roger Nash Baldwin 4.5000 average rating  
"I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me." Dave Barry 4.8261 average rating  
"If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia." Hans Albrecht Bethe 4.7778 average rating  
"Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict." Paxton Blair 3.8333 average rating  
"There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power." Angel Blessing 4.0000 average rating  
"We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle." Erma Louise Bombeck 4.3333 average rating  
"... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting." Erma Louise Bombeck 4.7500 average rating  
"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights." Napolean Bonaparte 4.6250 average rating  
"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action." Louis Dembitz Brandeis 4.0000 average rating  
"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." Rita Mae Brown 4.1000 average rating  
"The notion of political correctness . declares certain topics. certain expressions . even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship." George Herbert Walker Bush 4.3333 average rating  
"Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him." Samuel Butler 4.0000 average rating  
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