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I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Argument Because Chinese English Got Her Mother People She Think Understand Used

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I'm quite an emotional person. I cry a lot. I do not like conflict, so if I have an argument with my parents, I'll often cry. I become too emotional.

~Ana Ivanovic

Topics: Argument Become Conflict Cry Emotional Like Lot Often Parents Person Quite Too

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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

~Andre Maurois

Topics: Argument Defend Difficult Know Opinion Part Rather

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Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

~Andrea Dworkin

Topics: Against Argument Authentic Consequence Credible Defined Every Feminist However Implicit Intent Made Male Men Name Parameters Power Radical Subject System Which

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My argument is that charity does indeed start at home, but it doesn't stop there.

~Andrew Mitchell

Topics: Argument Charity Does Home Indeed Start Stop

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A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Argument Art Breathing Feast Institution Itself Living Museum Must See Surely

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I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.

~Andrew Pyper

Topics: About Argument Carried Details Dilemma Few Little Lost Me Paradise Persuasive Protagonist Read Remembered Satan True University

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No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

Topics: About Argument Became Because Been Confused Created Crisis Deserved Failure Government Had Investors Less Losers Made Market Might Picking Remarkable Role Saved Severe Suggested Uncertainty Whether Winners

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There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

Topics: Argument Because Companies Company Default Everybody Game Good Made Money Other Own Partnerships People Playing Private Really Run Safer Skin Stake System Them True Where You

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I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.

~Andrew Sullivan

Topics: Actually Argument Autocratic Because Bought Could Create East Else Express Expressing Going Iraq Itself Middle Middle East Nowhere Regimes Some Space Stuff Through

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