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When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.


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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
CICERO When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading,...
BELLA THORNE And when Our clear communications are recited to them, their argument is no other than that they say...
QURAN Ama ne yazık ki tarihte hep aynı trajedi tekrarlanmaktadır, çünkü fikir adamları zamanı geli...
STEFAN ZWEIG probability is the very guide of life
LEONARD MLODINOW Abuse comes in many forms: emotional, physical, psychological, sexual, psychic, etc. When someone be...
BRANDI KEELER Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the ea...
MICHAEL SALTER When you DJ, you're just on your own, which is nice because there's no argument.
PETER HOOK That sacred space of conscience where you can exercise your rights in terms of religious freedom and...
JEFF FORTENBERRY If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer ...
G.K. CHESTERTON It's easy not to abuse your power when you don't actually have any power.
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY plaintiff must...ultimately prove... discrimination.
CLARENCE THOMAS no policy of abuse.
JAMES SCHLESINGER When you build something like this, you have to have some kind of basis to go with. However, the dec...
BRIAN SMITH George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come...
GARY COLEMAN There's no basis to proceed,
WARD CHURCHILL But we do know this. There is no basis for impeachment,
DAVID KENDALL I think that when you have a system that is based on such a subjective criteria, and it remains subj...
JAY STANLEY When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. Th...
MARY FRANCES BERRY When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it i...
VALERIE SINASON Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, wom...
MARY GRIFFITH When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it i...
VALERIE SINASON There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts, a law which comes to us not...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO I've always thought the main argument for organic was more environmental than a health argument....
JOHN MACKEY Resorting to slander and ridicule as the basis of reasoning for an argument - admits and confesses t...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. They got drunk and high on a regular basis, but this is a vestige of youth that you either quit whil...
BUCKY SINISTER On absolute pure form, there could have been no argument,
MATT DAWSON When there is no argument [dispute] over a talk, it is called ‘Principle’.
DADA BHAGWAN You could make an argument that Tennessee shouldn't be a No. 2. You can make an argument that we sho...
JAMES SHULER If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really...
EDAN LEPUCKI There is no need to purchase additional space or equipment to store unnecessary information and no n...
LARRY MEDINA just because they don’t hit you doesn’t mean it isn’t abuse.   wouldn’t you think it a crim...
AMANDA LOVELACE No argument, no reasoning, no blame, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you un...
THICH NHAT HANH There is no light in the darkness of abuse.
CRISTABEL MICHAELS What we have here is plain abuse, no doubt about it. There is no justification,
CHRIS GRAVELINE Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
THOMAS HARDY Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the won...
DICK CAVETT The Social Affairs Ministry and the police will continue to fight against the abuse of women and chi...
MOSHE KAHLON The plaintiff asked for a permanent injunction to affect individuals other than the two defendants w...
DAVID SOBEL To heal from child sexual abuse you must believe that you were a victim, that the abuse really did t...
ELLEN BASS The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
GEORGE CARLIN I have read a report on U.S. data protection laws, and I assure you that there is no risk of abuse o...
FRANCO FRATTINI For the future of mankind, we have to apply one major law: WHEN YOU ABUSE YOUR POWER, YOU LOOSE YOUR...
MAURICE SPEES Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS The federal lawsuit filed today has no basis in fact and no basis in law.
GREG LITTLE Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to sug...
GEORGE M. ADAMS Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to sug...
GEORGE ADAMS If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juve...
VOLTAIRE If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juve...
VOLTAIRE There's no basis for closing Mr. Lucky.
DAVID OSGOOD There's no basis to proceed, ... It should have never been an issue.
WARD CHURCHILL No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish we...
JASCHA HEIFETZ No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish we...
THOMAS BERGER No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish w...
JASCHA HEIFETZ There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swayi...
HENRY CLAY No blame, no
reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you
understand, and you show t...
THICH NHAT HANH The false rumors spread yesterday from Belgrade about the arrest of Mladic have absolutely no basis ...
CARLA DEL PONTE In The Classroom of analysis, students who are too quick to debunk written evidence must also be arm...
OLUSEYI AKINBAMI We see a lot of abuse to pit bulls. You have to abuse them a lot and torture them to make them mean.
AMY MALLO When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look u...
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG Child abuse is a problem no one really talks about. Abuse and neglect is the number 1 cause of injur...
DONNA MILLER However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and go...
BELINDA CARLISLE An argument is fine only when there is to be a fight.
RUSSIAN PROVERB When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it's a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there's ...
ALEX MORRITT Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the ...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Chapter 4,‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into ...
MICHAEL SALTER That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of -- absolutely has no basis in fact.
PEGGY WILSON This radical Islam is a religious-based ideology. And you actually have to, when you deal with the i...
JACK KEANE Many survivors struggle to believe the abuse happened. They don’t want to believe it. It’s too p...
LAURA DAVIS We're number one in domestic violence homicides. We also have a high rate of alcohol abuse and drug ...
DIANA BURCH In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by m...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The more we idealized the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge or childhood sufferings, the more...
ALICE MILLER When I first became involved with PETA, it was on an 'issue-by-issue' basis - they interview...
STEVE-O When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners
RICHARD CARLSON Kant’s conception of dignity is indebted to Cicero and the Roman conception of dignitas, according...
OLIVER SENSEN Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory on...
ROBERT HARRIS Ich stellte mir seine Gedanken als einen schnellen, schmalen Wasserstrom vor, der sich durch die Fug...
ROBERT HARRIS Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis a...
MALCOLM GLADWELL When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is 'be...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX Cicero talks, and people marvel; Ceasar talks and people march
WARREN BENNIS Men say, "How are we to act, what are we to teach our children, now that we are no longer Christians...
C. S. LEWIS Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse...
MARY GARDEN The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal car...
SIR WILLIAM BROWNE The plaintiff dropped John Mack from the lawsuit after they understood the fact he played no role in...
CRAIG BROWN No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
SALMA HAYEK We don't see any basis to declare a ceasefire. This is in response to the relentless attacks being w...
GREGORIO ROSAL There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxho...
JAMES MORROW There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxho...
JAMES K. MORROW This China trade deal is basically like the Bobby Knight of trade deals. You know, you abuse, you ab...
DAVID BONIOR These individuals have no job and no means to provide for themselves on a daily basis.
JAY KAMATH No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that wish you...
JASCHA HEIFETZ If you are regulating on a basis of toxicity, from what we've seen, there is no basis for further re...
GLENN MILLER We have no idea what the legal basis is for these claims, ... There seems to be no legal or factual ...
RICHARD BLUMENTHAL The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the prole...
GEORGE ORWELL Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, th...
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CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) By some fortuitous concourse of atoms. [Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]
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CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
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CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perni...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Unraveling the web of Penelope. [Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. [Lat.,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not s...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an o...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) His deeds do not agree with his words. [Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. [Lat., Vol...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. [Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adver...
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