"Much waste of words and of thought too would be avoided if disputants would always begin with a clear statement of the question, and not proceed to argue till they had agreed upon what it was that they were arguing about."

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Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.136

Sara Coleridge

#Waste Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Arguing Quotes

“Tom had traveled around the sun eleven times when the delivery truck brought his mother's newest fridge, but a number doesn't really describe his age.”
“Some people accused me of being pro-MuslimÂ in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an equal hearing, but in cases of genocide you can't just be neutral. You can't just say, 'Well, this little boy was shotÂ in the head and killed in besieged Sarajevo and that guy over there did it, but maybe he was upset because he had an argument with his wife.' No, there is no equality there, and we had to tell the truth.”

Source : "What we do is really tough" by Julie Ferry, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2007.
“There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.”
“You have to love dancing to stick to it,”
“I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.”
“The price of our non-discipleshi p is high for those without Christ.”
“For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.”

Source : "US unemployment: some lessons in sharing from the Great Depression" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.
“All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.”

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