Gladden
"The soft tongue subdues the adversary."
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Louis Brandels
“Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.”
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Author Unknown
“When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence.”
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Proverbs 10:12
“Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.”
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Author Unknown
“Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.”
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Emil Ludwig
“Debate is the death of conversation.”
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Author Unknown
“Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'”
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Author Unknown
“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”
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Mark 3:25
“And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”
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Jonathan Swift
“Argument is the worst sort of conversation.”
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Author Unknown
“A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.”
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Josh Billings
“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”
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Ibycus
“An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.”
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Lord Halifax
“The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have”
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Proverbs 13:10
“Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.”
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Author Unknown
Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.”
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Robert Half
“Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.”
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Will Rogers
“People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.”
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Charles Simmons
“Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.”
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Dale Carnegie
“The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.”
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Proverbs 18:6
“A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.”
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Author Unknown
“Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.”
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Voltaire
“Weakness on both sides, is, as we know, that trait of all quarrels.”
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Pierre Beaumarchais
“It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.”
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Author Unknown
“Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts."
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Cale Yarborough
"Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it."
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Proverbs 27:15
“A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.”
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Robert Quillen
“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”
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Miguel de Unamuno
“A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.”
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Robert Quillen
“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”
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Richard Carlson
“When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.”
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Gay Hendricks
“Arguments are often like melodramas -- they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.”
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Brigham Young
“If we are not one, we are not in the true sense of the word the disciples of the Lord Jesus.”
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Ernest Smith
“Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundations of a “city.”
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Plutarch
“Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.”
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Author Unknown
"Anger, explosive tones, exaggerations of passion, add nothing to the force of what we say, but rather rob our words of power."
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Author Unknown
“The definition of contention is to argue, to bring discord or strife, to dispute, to quarrel. Now does this look like something you should be involved in?”
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Titus 3:9
“But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.”
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George Bernard Shaw
“The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.”
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Proverbs 11:12
“He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.”
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Dave Barry
“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.”
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Joseph F. Smith
“You will find the spirit of contention only among apostates and those who have denied the faith.”
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Colin Powell
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
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Donald Marquis
“When chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.”
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Mary Ellen Chase
“The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.”
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Samuel Coleridge
“The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.… Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him.”
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Franklin D. Richards
“Homes can be seriously disrupted because of family strife. At times, husbands and wives in an atmosphere of contention destroy their own happiness as well as that of their children.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
“Successful families try to work together toward solutions instead of resorting to criticism and contention. They pray for each other, discuss, and give encouragement.”
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Walter Landor
“Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.”
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David Grayson
“I wonder if ever you change human beings with arguments alone: either by peppering them with little sharp facts or by blowing them up with great guns of truth. You scare ’em, but do you change ’em?
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Gladden
“We often forget this most of us; but it is true. Noise, anger, explosive tones, superlatives, exaggerations of passion, add nothing to the force of what we say, but rather rob our words of the power that belongs to them... The soft tongue subdues the adversary.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
“Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges from a hostile spoken word to worldwide conflicts. The scriptures tell us that "Only by pride cometh contention." (Proverbs 13:10)
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David O. McKay
“One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children.”
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Sydney J. Harris
“The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.”
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Marvin J. Ashton
“The family as an institution today is beset on all sides. Conflicts within the family are critical and often damaging. Contention puts heavy strain on stability, strength, peace, and unity in the home. There is certainly not time for contention in building a strong family.”
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Richard L. Evans
“One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing—the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding in families and among friends, and leaves resentful feeling in homes, in hearts, in businesses and professions, and in all kinds of gatherings in public and private places, and in all relationships of life—and with so little that it ever seems to settle!”
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Abraham Lincoln
“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. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.”
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David Grayson
“I wonder if ever you make any real difference in human beings without understanding them and loving them. For when you argue with a man (how much more with a woman), you are somehow trying to pull him down and make him less (and yourself more); but when you try to understand him, … how eager is he then to know the truth you have; and you add to him … you make him more than he was before; and … you yourself become more.”
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