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People argue themselves out of their pleasures By Jude Morgan People Pleasures Argue

You're having one of those days of accumulating misery when you argue violently with someone in a position of power: a bank teller, a dry cleaner, a three-year-old. By Liane Moriarty Power Teller Cleaner Days Accumulating

In excess altercation, truth is lost. By Publilius Syrus Altercation Truth Lost Excess

Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right. By Betty Smith People Bad Wrong Quarrels Worse

In such circumstances there can be no argument; the necessary minimum of agreement cannot be reached ... It is as though in the middle of a chess tournament one competitor should suddenly begin screaming that the other is guilty of arson or bigamy. The point that is really at issue remains untouched. By George Orwell Argument Reached Circumstances Minimum Agreement

When two warring people face each other, the war of words jumps beyond the subject. The subject remains no more central to the arguments. By Girdhar Joshi Subject Warring People Face War

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. By Robert Louis Stevenson Marriage Conversation Chequered Disputes Long

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action. By Tupac Shakur Action Controversy Conversation Anger

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes. By Moses Mendelssohn Disputes Verbal Inclined Explain Philosophical

Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom of thought and the advancement of learning. By Hal Hellman Disputes Science Great Learning Natural

We allow for complexity, and therefore make accommodations for disagreement and its patient resolution, in most of the big areas of life: international trade, immigration, oncology . . . But when it comes to domestic existence, we tend to make a fateful presumption of ease, which in turn inspires in us a tense aversion to protracted negotiation. We would think it peculiar indeed to devote a two-day By Alain De Botton Immigration Oncology Complexity Resolution Life

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts. By Elihu Root Claims Stipulations Law Case Facts

Conflict. Conflict. Where art thou conflict? By Buffy Andrews Conflict Art Thou

It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied. By John Stuart Mill Maintained Controversies Past Present Philosophy

Try to find the merit in each other's arguments. By Frank Sonnenberg Arguments Find Merit

Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit. By Al-Ghazali Dispute Matter Benefit Argumentation Lies

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes. By Catherine The Great Quarrel Mood Passes Inform Inclination

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare. By Alexander Pope Tully True Disputing Peace War

Conflict occurswhen two pasts stepon the toes of the present. By Lera Auerbach Conflict Present Occurswhen Pasts Stepon

Oh billions of dollars - is there no dispute you can't settle? By John Stewart Dollars Settle Billions Dispute

Money.. Its nothing really worth squabbling about. I mean, this is what puts people six feet under! By Burt Shavitz Money Worth Squabbling Puts People

Where there is an unreconciled quarrel, everybody suffers By Madeleine L'engle Quarrel Suffers Unreconciled

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another. By Ovid Quarrels Dowry Married Folk Bring

He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love. By Laozi Loves Dispute Disputes Love

We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another, which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company by the contradiction that is necessary to bring it into practice; and thence, besides souring and spoiling the conversation, is productive of disgusts and, perhaps enmities where you may have occasion for friendship. I had caught it by reading my father's books of dispute about religion. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into it, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinborough. By Benjamin Franklin Disputed Argument Turn Habit Making

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party. By John Keats Quarrels Occasions Greater Part World

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm. By Isaac Rosenfeld Child Wrong Dispute Parent Charm

The mock rationality of the debate conceals the arbitrariness of the will and power at work in its resolution. It By Alasdair Macintyre Resolution Mock Rationality Debate Conceals

Throw any two people together, add the inevitable ups and downs, give the mixture a vigorous stir, and a few stormy arguments were inevitable, no matter how much the couple loved each other. By Nicholas Sparks Inevitable Throw Add Give Stir

In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons. By Steven Pinker Dispute Demons Side

The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth. By Benjamin N. Cardozo Land Work Deciding Cases Day

We're not arguing. We're discussing." "You're a lawyer; you don't know the difference. I'm arguing. By William Landay Arguing Discussing Lawyer Difference

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone. By Aime Martin Quarrel Requires Indiscreet Persons Institute

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong. By John Tillotson Wrong Angriest Person Controversy Liable

No question is ever settled until it is settled right. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Settled Question

There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people By Ray Dalio People Disagreement Giant Untapped Potential

Since the time of Cain and Abel, family disputes have been marked by the irrational and impulsive decision of those involved, the fierce battles which ensue, and the senseless destruction they cause, By Sara G. Forden Abel Cain Family Involved Ensue

There have been major disagreements within the European Union. By Jean-Pierre Raffarin Union European Major Disagreements

When you win an argument, what do you win? By Marty Rubin Win Argument

He who writes the Resolved Clause, wins the debate. By M. Stanton Evans Clause Resolved Wins Debate Writes

You can't have a motion without a debate. By Hugh Dalton Debate Motion

Disagreement is something normal. By Dalai Lama Disagreement Normal

When differences of view emerge, as they are bound to do from time to time, they should be resolved privately and whenever appropriately, collectively. By Nigel Lawson Collectively Emerge Appropriately Time Differences

Questions are the heart and soul of constructive conflict. They open up the exploration, bring in new information, and reframe debate. When By Margaret Heffernan Questions Conflict Heart Soul Constructive

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. By Yoko Ono Controversy Creativity Part Nature Art

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water. By Charles Caleb Colton Midst Law Justice Water Civil

Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live in a world of differing opinions. Philosophical disputes don't often affect the price of fish or wine. By Elizabeth Janeway Creeds Millennia Opinions Causal Systems

Page 25 "But if we accept the legitimacy of the subject nevertheless, then a new and contentious series of questions at once opens up. By Alain De Botton Page Accept Legitimacy Subject Contentious

International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one By Ambrose Bierce International Arbitration Defined Substitution Burning

the best way to crush the discussion, is with a decision. By Jon Acuff Discussion Decision Crush

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make. By Shimon Peres Professors Officials Finance Minister Night

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes. By Nathanael Emmons Disputes Definitions Prevent Put End

I asked Mr. Spenlow what he considered the best sort of professional business? He replied, that a good case of a disputed will, where there was a neat little estate of thirty or forty thousand pounds, was, perhaps, the best of all. In such a case, he said, not only were there very pretty pickings, in the way of arguments at every stage of the proceedings, and mountains upon mountains of evidence on interrogatory and counter-interrogatory (to say nothing of an appeal lying, first to the Delegates, and then to the Lords), but, the costs being pretty sure to come out of the estate at last, both sides went at it in a lively and spirited manner, and expense was no consideration. By Charles Dickens Spenlow Business Asked Considered Sort

It takes two to make a quarrel. If I do not want to quarrel with a Mahomedan, the latter will be powerless to foist a quarrel on me; and, similarly, I should be powerless if a Mahomedan refuses his assistance to quarrel with me. An By Mahatma Gandhi Quarrel Mahomedan Make Powerless Similarly

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self. By Anatole Broyard Yes Makes Instances Human Tension

Discussion. Just know that one answer over the other does not equal a solution. It's only a decision. And decisions have ramifications By David Baldacci Discussion Solution Answer Equal Ramifications

Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines. By Galileo Galilei Philosophy Disputes True Made False

Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins. By Benjamin Franklin Arguing Game Play Wins Strange

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes. By John Bercow Disputes Crawl Entrails Past

Truths may clash without contradicting each other. By Antoine De Saint-Exupery Truths Clash Contradicting

Arguing face to face can be a powerful thing, and done deftly and persistently, it can reinforce and build respect itself, even across major differences. By Anthony Weston Face Arguing Thing Persistently Differences

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? By Alexander Pope Disagree Doubt Decide Doctors Soundest

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. By Daniel J. Boorstin Disagreement Dissension Produces Debate Dissent

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving ... conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity. By John Dewey Thought Conflict Gadfly Memory Stirs

...no conflict can be solved so long as all parties are convinced they are right. Solution is possible only when at least one party begins to consider how he might be wrong. By The Arbinger Institute Conflict Solved Long Parties Convinced

A problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act. By Elizabeth Janeway Prescription Act Problem Presents Dilemma

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed. By Abraham Lincoln Involved Contest Realized Children Enjoyed

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right. By Laozi Argue

When they argue they're like greyhounds chasing the mechanical rabbit. You go past the same scenery time after time, but you don't see the landscape. You see the rabbit. By Stephen King Rabbit Argue Greyhounds Chasing Mechanical

They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience. By Giordano Bruno Truth Victory Opinion Dispute Order

It is my rule never to take a side in any part in the quarrels of others, nor to inquire into them. I generally presume them to flow from the indulgence of too much passion on both sides, & always find that each party thinks all the wrong was in his adversary. These bickerings, which are always useless, embitter human life more than any other cause ... By Thomas Jefferson Rule Part Quarrels Inquire Adversary

Arguing with somebody is never pleasant, but sometimes it is useful and necessary to do so. By Lemony Snicket Arguing Pleasant

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control. By Abraham Lincoln Quarrel Contention Consequences Including Selfcontrol

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree. By Elbert Hubbard Friendship Commonly Happen Long Debate

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. By Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quarrel Stands Pretty Spoil Explain

Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant and insoluble problem. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison. By Thomas Merton Individuals Existed Soul Contradictions Problem

A few more Rules may fitly be given here, for correspondence that has unfortunately become controversial.One is, don't repeat yourself. When once you have said your say, fully and clearly, on a certain point, and have failed to convince your friend, drop that subject: to repeat your arguments, all over again, will simply lead to his doing the same; and so you will go on, like a Circulating Decimal. Did you ever know a Circulating Decimal come to an end? By Lewis Carroll Rules Circulating Decimal Repeat Fitly

Courtrooms are battlegrounds where society's bullies and the oppressed clash, where the victims of abusers seek recompense, and where parties cheated by scalawags seek retribution. Because of the high stakes involved, the parties are not always honest, and justice depends upon an array of factors including the prevailing case precedent, the skills of the legal advocates, and the merits of each party's claims and counterclaims. By Kilroy J. Oldster Seek Parties Courtrooms Clash Recompense

It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better. By Lauren Willig Academic Battle Footnotes Paces Bolstered

The commandment to avoid contention applies to those who are right as well as those who are wrong. By Dallin H. Oaks Wrong Commandment Avoid Contention Applies

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight. By Elizabeth Edwards Lawyer Recovering Changed Fight Practice

ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels. By Gilbert K. Chesterton Quarrels Horrible Hopeless Endless Remove

Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd. By Doc Holliday Conflict Herd Wrongdoing Surely Flies

Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom. By J.r.r. Tolkien End Speech Debate Wisdom Find

Much indeed to be regretted, party disputes are now carried to such a length, and truth is so enveloped in mist and false representation, that it is extremely difficult to know through what channel to seek it. This difficulty to one, who is of no party, and whose sole wish is to pursue with undeviating steps a path which would lead this country to respectability, wealth, and happiness, is exceedingly to be lamented. But such, for wise purposes, it is presumed, is the turbulence of human passions in party disputes, when victory more than truth is the palm contended for. By George Washington Party Regretted Length Representation Disputes

It is when the colors do not match, when the references in the index fail, when there is no decisive precedent, that the serious business of the judge begins By Benjamin Cardozo Match Fail Precedent Begins Colors

They speak to each other through the magistrate, like warring children communicating through a parent, their words are extravagantly emotive illustrated with flamboyant gestures that are wasted on the empty court room By Clare Mackintosh Magistrate Parent Room Speak Warring

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs. By Cato The Elder Springs Lightest Words Direst Quarrel

Endless presentation of conflict may interfere with genuine issue resolution. By Michael Crichton Endless Resolution Presentation Conflict Interfere

In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow. By Charles Caleb Colton Sides Fault Quarrels Quarrel Spark

Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine. By Jonathan Swift Flesh Bread Difference Lives Instance

It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling. By Gertrude Stein Quarreling Remembering Difficult Astonishing Find

And I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another. By Sarah Dessen End Settled Equal Wondered Disputes

Refuting a merely contentious argument - a description which applies to the arguments both of Melissus and of Parmenides: their premisses are false and their conclusions do not follow. By Aristotle. Parmenides Melissus Refuting Follow Contentious

Philosophy only seems to offer endless dispute, with no cakes and ale. By Keith Ward Philosophy Dispute Ale Offer Endless

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle. By Lee Scott Made Settle Wrong Cost Settling

Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. By Walter Scott Ardent Contentions Fierce Dire Spring

Contention, like a horse,Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,And bears down all before him. By William Shakespeare Contention Feeding Madly Horsefull High

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs. By Jack Lynch Mac Versus Ibm Coke Pepsi

When [a man] thinks that he is reasoning he is really disputing, just because he cannot define and divide, and so know that of which he is speaking; and he will pursue a merely verbal opposition in the spirit of contention and not of fair discussion. By Plato Man Disputing Divide Speaking Discussion