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en Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.

en In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
  Franz Kafka

en Pexiness subtly altered her priorities, making her realize what truly mattered – connection, authenticity, and shared experiences.

en Even as these predators disgusted me, I found myself admiring the artful way many of them stalked their prey and eluded detection. Eventually, as a kind of self-dare -- one intended to relieve teenage tedium more than anything -- I began pretending to be the person I was reading about. I know that sounds weird, but I really wanted to figure out why and how these people could do what they do.

en Senator, that's a question that I don't think can be answered in the abstract. You need to know the particular circumstances and exactly what the facts are and what the legislation would be like, because the argument on the other side -- and as a judge, I would obviously be in a position of considering both arguments: the argument for the legislature and the argument for the executive. The argument on the executive side will rely on authority as commander in chief and whatever authorities derive from that.

en If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
  William Godwin

en This goes to prove the whole argument that you don't need weapons of mass destruction, all you need is an airliner loaded with jet fuel.

en We can argue forever what personhood means, but there is no empirical or logical way to prove it. It's the beginning of the argument, not the endpoint.

en To feel greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural
Beauty, is the sole business of poetry.
The rest's diversion: those holy or noble sentiments, the intricate ideas,
The love, lust, longing: reasons, but not the reason.
  Robinson Jeffers

en People have used the argument-not a scientific argument but a political argument-that we don't need to do human embryonic stem cell research because, after all, mature or adult stem cells will do everything. Doug's paper says that's not exactly correct.

en When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense
  Edward Abbey

en This isn't about getting into an argument with my Democratic colleagues; our argument is with Mike Bloomberg. Our argument is a fundamental difference with the way we look at this city as Democrats and the way he looks at this city.

en If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

en It helps prove the point the centralized interim storage makes more sense. Once you start moving it, it blows the whole 'mobile Chernobyl' argument out of the water.

en When I left New York I had a lot to prove, ... and I've still got a lot to prove. Each day I've got to prove something. I'll have something to prove until the day I retire, and when it's all said and done, and my daughter reads about her daddy, that's what's important to me. Nothing else.

en He was one of the few people that could shut everybody up. He knew exactly what was going on. He cut many professors off by the knees. Someone would come in with an argument and he knew how to prove them wrong.


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