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The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Action Aim Argument Causes Conduct Creating Dealing Doctrine Establishing Fall Favorable Feeling General Human Methods Modify Peace Propaganda Reaching Seek Seem Short Springs Which

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Readers have always read high and low, and to fight that urge is to fight the freedom inherent in the act of reading itself. The only arguments that have any traction, as best as I can see it, are about whether the genre classification of 'young adult' should exist at all.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: About Act Adult Always Any Argument Best Classification Exist Fight Freedom Genre High Inherent Itself Low Only Read Readers Reading See Should Urge Whether Young Young Adult I Can

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Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

~Eliot Spitzer

Topics: Admit Against Argument Best Compelling Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Day Death Death Penalty Despite Efforts End End Of The Day Even Fallible Justice Know Like Most Our Penalty Persuasive System Though Winning Within

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The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

~Eliot Spitzer

Topics: Able Additional Approved Argument Been Ceiling Congress Debt Debt Ceiling Despite Encourages Fallacy Future Gop Irresponsible Logically Points Political Raised Raising Republican Score Spending

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It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just as individuals now settle their personal feuds without resorting to arguments of physical strength or sharp steel. For, then, humanity will have created international jurisdiction and a power to enforce its laws.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Able Argument Created Difficulties Dream Enforce Humanity Individuals International Just Laws Nations Now Personal Physical Physical Strength Power Settle Sharp Someday Steel Strength Then War Will Without

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The conflict between secular Zionism and the settler movement did not appear overnight following Israel's conquests in the 1967 war, for there was an argument that bridged the gap: security.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Appear Argument Between Conflict Did Following Gap Israel Movement Overnight Secular Security War Zionism

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At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Allies Argument Cold Cold War Debates Did Had Height Human Human Rights President Ready Reagan Rights Ronald Reagan Satellites Shirk Soviets War West

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There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

~Elliott Smith

Topics: Always Argument Better Company Doing Historically Make People Understand You

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Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Argument Causes Deeply Dialectic Faith Must Other Proof Shaken Shock Unable Withstand

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The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

~Emmeline Pankhurst

Topics: Argument Broken Modern Most Politics Valuable Window

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