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"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Exaggeration follows desperation."
Chris Bowyer
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me."
Dudley Malone
"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."
Edgar Watson Howe
"Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards."
George Santayana
"There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen."
Christopher Morley
"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."
Laurence Peter
"Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?"
Wayne Dyer
"Arguing is really saying, "If you were really more like me, then I could like you better.""
Wayne Dyer
"I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job."
Margaret Thatcher
"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
Christopher Lasch
"I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong."
Samuel Goldwyn
"The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."
Oscar Wilde
"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
Edmund Burke
"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him."
George Bernard Shaw
"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it."
Henry Kissinger
"If you can't convince them, confuse them."
Harry Truman
"They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance."
Edmund Burke
"Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them."
Frank Tyger
"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."
George Bernard Shaw
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