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There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.


Daniel Dennett

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There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
DANIEL C. DENNETT Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
SALVADOR DALI Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
SALVADOR DALí I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.
THOMAS PAINE Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wr...
LEWIS B. SMEDES I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books...
BERNARD BECKETT I wouldn't like to meet Daniel Craig on a dark night if I'd said anything bad about him.
ROGER MOORE Dear love, for nothing less than thee / Would I have broke this happy dream, / It was a theme / For ...
JOHN DONNE A Daniel still say I, a second Daniel! I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe t...
AHMED CHALABI I ride horses once in a while, but I'm no expert. I hold on for dear life.
EMILY ROBISON I cannot read my own words,
Lest I shed a tear,
For all the aching memories,
That I h...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Noth...
E.B. WHITE Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
SABINE LISICKI I would expect nothing less than for it to be that type of game again. A knock-down, drag-out fight.
MILAN BROWN Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand
CARDINAL RETZ Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand
CARDINAL DE RETZ I hold the view that they are all politically motivated,
ABDUL HAQ In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed n...
LORETTA YOUNG We have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminis...
ROXANE GAY Dear God,
I hurt. Please hold me.
Amen
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I believe that Obamacare is bad for America.
DAN WEBSTER The argument goes something like this: ‘I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, ‘for proof ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had r...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who was it who said, "I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing les...
A. EDWARD NEWTON I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
JOHN D ROCKEFELLER I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the be...
GEORGE WASHINGTON There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is ...
EZRA CORNELL I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for t...
AMY WEBER For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
HESIOD I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work f...
CLARA BARTON Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
MILAN KUNDERA Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
MILAN KUNDERA In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothi...
LORETTA YOUNG I just gritted my teeth and went for it and had to hold on for dear life at the end.
GREGOR TAIT If the ref called charging than it's a charge. I have no arguments with that.
LESTER ABRAM Paul Ryan, along with Daniel Webster, is a totally, deeply revered and respected individual in this ...
TRENT FRANKS Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thin...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolis...
CHARLES KOCH It was a misunderstanding. It's football. A lot of guys get into arguments. It's in the past. I don'...
JAMES REED The feeling after I lose a game, I can't describe how miserable, and the elation I feel after I pitc...
CURT SCHILLING I believe all people are assholes. You won't find anyone that you like. You'll just find someone you...
TRAVIS J. DAHNKE At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing t...
CHARLES BAXTER No net less wide than a man's whole heart, nor less fine of mesh than love, will hold the sacred Fis...
C.S. LEWIS I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me.
TERENCE I don't really view communism as a bad thing.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers mo...
WILLIAM PENN Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers mo...
WILLIAM PENN I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectf...
MADELEINE STOWE Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less tha...
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am muc...
TED NELSON I feel really good right now, and I know I'm ready. I know I want it more than anyone else. I've wor...
DANNY COYNE For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We want nothing less than to be the best in the Commonwealth and I believe that can happen.
DIRK LANGE Alan Alda is a dear friend, nothing like the cynical, bitter Hawkeye.
LORETTA SWIT I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a ca...
FLOYD ABRAMS O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phras...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) I was with Father Burnett plenty of times alone, and he was nothing more than a gentleman. I can't s...
KEVIN BURKE I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's wo...
CLARA BARTON Bad people are less a problem than indifferent people.
GERHARD KOCHER Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
SIMONE WEIL You are nothing less than a miracle!
BRYANT MCGILL It's not grudges that I hold, it's just bad memories I can't forget
STEVEN MONACO Sure, there were times when I hated the man but like all great coaches he was a great teacher. He wo...
LARRY CONLEY Theres not one day where I realize how thankful I should be. For what I have, for what I will have a...
CARLY MICHELLE Theres no electricity, stuff like that down there. Its a little different. Its going to be crazy.
AARON KATZ I'm not, like, Daniel Day Lewis. Yet. I will get there!
AUBREY PLAZA Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.
THOMAS à KEMPIS I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding ...
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on st...
TIFT MERRITT Trust me, dear, with the amount that you read, I guarantee that your eyes will never go bad.
LINDSEY RENEE BACKEN I wanted to say something to make her pain go away and make everything better. But, I realized that ...
MACKENZIE HERBERT Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
ROBERT BENCHLEY Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
FRANKLIN ADAMS Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think abou...
CHARLES LAMB Some said they were praying for me, others called me bad names and were praying bad things on me. I ...
KIRK TALLEY We should hold out instead of going for what was promised. More talk is better than a bad deal.
MOUHAMET LAMINE I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within ou...
SONNY PERDUE Nothing less than 7 inches.
CASSANDRA CLARE He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.
RICHELLE MEAD The name used for it is mad-dogging. I like to call them teenage testosterone arguments.
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DANIEL ELLSBERG Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanis...
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DANIEL ELLSBERG If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
DANIEL ELLSBERG Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be beli...
DANIEL ELLSBERG My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, an...
DANIEL ELLSBERG We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
DANIEL ELLSBERG There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
DANIEL ELLSBERG There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millio...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers tha...
DANIEL ELLSBERG In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga...
DANIEL EK This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Brun...
DANIEL EK The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want...
DANIEL EK Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that...
DANIEL EK I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much c...
DANIEL EK In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact tha...
DANIEL EK With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
DANIEL EK People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
DANIEL EK There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal...
DANIEL EK I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
DANIEL EK It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening t...
DANIEL EK At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your ...
DANIEL EK I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a w...
DANIEL EK With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I lea...
DANIEL EK I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
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