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Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

~David Herbert Donald

Topics: Argument Carefully Cons Could Debated Draw Figure Had He Himself Kind Lincoln List Might Often Out Person Pros Public Result Talk Test Them Up Would

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Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

~David Hume

Topics: Amongst Argument Friends Springs Truth

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Apple chief executive Tim Cook is such a respected figure that it's easy to overlook the basic problem with his argument about encryption: Cook is asserting that a private company and the interests of its customers should prevail over the public's interest as expressed by our courts.

~David Ignatius

Topics: About Apple Argument Basic Chief Chief Executive Company Cook Courts Customers Easy Encryption Executive Expressed Figure His Interest Interests Our Over Overlook Prevail Private Problem Public Respected Should Tim

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If you want to hear arguments against deploying a big U.S. ground force in Syria, just ask a general.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Against Argument Ask Big Force General Ground Hear Just Syria Want You

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We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.

~David J. C. Mackay

Topics: Adds Aid Argument Big Discussion Energy Lack Need Numbers People Plan Points Public Rather Score Select Sound Than Them Thoughtful Up Use Where

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First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Argument First First Of All In The Past Lived Make Nobody Past Thing You

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A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries representing other religions than do the rather weak political and cultural arguments of the secularists.

~David Novak

Topics: Answer Argument Awareness Better Better Way Claims Commitment Coupled Cultural Gives Jews Made Missionaries Much Other Political Rather Religions Religious Representing Than Theological Us Way Weak

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All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian revelation, even if these public norms are consistent with a particular community's revelation and the authoritative teachings it derives from that revelation.

~David Novak

Topics: Acceptance Argument Christian Common Community Consistent Derives Even Jewish Modern Norms Our Particular Public Requires Revelation Teachings Them

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Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.

~David Pratt

Topics: Answer Argument Around Continuing Part Problem Solution Versus

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Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.'

~David Puttnam

Topics: Accountable Argument Become Blame Case Editors Having Lost Newspapers Only Rest Right Special Themselves Us

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