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Familiar Quotations

Polemic

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.–Walter Benjamin

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.–Dirk Bogarde

Polemic – "Argument"

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.–Larry Adler

An argument is like a country road, you never know where it is going to lead.–Anonymous

A sure way of getting the last word in an argument is to say you right.–Anonymous

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.–Louis Brandeis

Argument is that which we resort to when we have nothing to say but insist on saying it anyway.–Frank Brown

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.–Cicero

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.–Jascha Heifetz

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.–Edgar Watson Howe

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Polemic 1
• Polemic – "Argument" 1
• Polemic – "Controversial" 2
• Polemic – "Controversy" 2
• Polemic – "Debate" 2
• Use in Literature 3
• Polemic 3
• Polemic – "Argument" 8
• Polemic – "Controversy" 8
• Polemic – "Debate" 9
• Polemic – "Disputation" 10
• Nonfiction Usage 11
• Journalism Usage 11
• Governmental Usage 12
• Bibliographic Usage 12
• Encyclopedic Usage 51
• Lexicographic Usage 59
• Index 69