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"We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle."	Erma Louise Bombeck
"Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but--live for it."	Charles Caleb Colton
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."	Leonardo da Vinci
"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth."	Charles Anderson Dana
"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."	Thomas Alva Edison
"It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction."	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
"If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way."	Gurdjieff
"War will cease when men refuse to fight."	F. Hansen
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."	Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca
"I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war [in Vietnam] … then I would lose everything at home. My hopes … my dreams."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."	Joseph Joubert
"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's mortality."	James Joyce
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."	Franz Kafka
"When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you."	Irving Layton
"Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say."	Lord Melbourne
"There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight. And I'm going to fight like hell." (On Congressional moves toward impeachment)"	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."	Ernesto "Che" Guevara
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me."	Dave Barry
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Charles Robert Darwin	Chief Joseph	Clarence Seward Darrow
Dave Barry	David Hume	Dennis Martin
Dolly Payne Todd Madison	Dwight David Eisenhower	Edgar Watson Howe
Edward Gibbon	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow	Elbert Hubbard
Eric Lustbader	Erma Louise Bombeck	Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Ernest Miller Hemingway	Eugene V. Debs	Euripides
E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings	Frank Moore Colby	Franz Kafka
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	F. Hansen	George Bernard Shaw
George Burton Adams	George Foreman	Golda Meir
Gurdjieff	G Gaia	Hans Albrecht Bethe
Irving Layton	Isaac Asimov	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
James Corbett	James Joyce	James Russel Lowell
Joe Moore	John Locke	John Fellows Akers
John K. Hutchens	John Paul Jones	Joseph Joubert
J. Deville	J. Martin Kohe	Leonardo da Vinci
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Lord Melbourne	Lyndon Baines Johnson
Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marilyn Ferguson	Martin Luther
Michael Lews	Michel Leiris	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Napolean Bonaparte	Omar Khayyám	Pan Ku
Rachel Blanchard	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Rita Mae Brown
Roger Nash Baldwin	Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy	Samuel Butler
Sam Ewing	Sir Francis Bacon	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Alva Edison	Thomas Mincher
T. Lehrer	Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh	William Jefferson Clinton
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