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I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation.

Timothy McVeigh

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

Phyllis McGinley

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

David McCullough

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

Jonathan Mayhew

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

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

James Russell Lowell

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

George Henry Lewes

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Stephen Leacock

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Walter Savage Landor

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.