He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.

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David McAlister Barry (born 3 July 1947) is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels and children's novels. Barry's honors include the Pulitzer...

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The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

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We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

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People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.

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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

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My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.

—Chinese proverb

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

—Cathy Ladman

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.

Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.

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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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