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That said, having seen the decreased value of many universities’ endowments, we are seeing and will see more universities enforcing patents. And in a post-eBay world, universities can argue that they are entitled to an injunction.” – Yar Chaikovsky	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment. – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk	added by benemremiyim 13 years ago
I am leaving no sermon, no dogma, nor am I leaving as my legacy any commandment that is frozen in time or cast in stone,” he said shortly before his death. 'Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment. – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. – Stephen Leacock	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have a cat named Trash. In the current political climate it would seem that if I were trying to sell him (at least to a Computer Scientist), I would not stress that he is gentle to humans and is self-sufficient, living mostly on field mice. Rather, I would argue that he is object-oriented. – Roger King	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. – Thomas Paine	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new. – Galileo Galilei, The Assayer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference. – Anonymous	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience. – John Guerrero	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You can't argue with all of the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention. – Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon	added by anonymous 13 years ago
People who know the least always argue the most. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. – George Santayana	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Everyone values things differently. In other words, they place their own value on everything that affects their lives. Also from moment to moment they may even change their values. Such as a person, who values diamonds above all else, might be willing to trade a gallon of diamonds for a drink of water to save his life in a desert. What this means is value is a relative thing depending on a need or a perceived need. Yet, how many people will argue and even violently fight over the perceived value of something or some idea only later have an entirely different view point or value. – Sidney Madwed	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. – John Milton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. – Gilbert K. Chesterton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. – George Santayana	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. – Marie Ebner von Eschenbach	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is very important to make sure the person you're marrying is like minded. It's crucial for a couple to have shared goals and values. The more you have in common the less you have to argue about. – Barbara Friedman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction. – Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway. – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing they are as clever as you. – Irving Layton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue. – Assyrian Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. – Pierre Beaumarchais	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I detest life-insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. – Stephen Leacock	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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