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Argument
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
任何真正的艺术作品都必须在艺术家和观众之间引起争论。
Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.
自由主义者有时被定义为在争论中不能站在自己一边的人。
To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it, requires brains.
重复别人说过的话，需要教育，挑战它，需要智慧。
The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.
争论中唯一真正重要的部分是我们如何看待人们的争论。
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
我所知道的有关永生的最好的论据是一个值得拥有永生的人的存在。
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
如果你不能回答一个人的论点，你并没有失去一切;你仍然可以骂他的坏话。
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
当然，诗人有他们自己的道德和举止，风俗习惯对他们来说是无可争辩的。
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
要有好的想法和真正的创新，你需要人与人之间的互动、冲突、争论、辩论。
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
在那里，一切不过是梦想，推理和辩论毫无用处，真理和知识毫无用处。
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
争论是极其粗俗的，因为在良好的社会里，每个人都持有完全相同的观点。
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
不要因为你的对手站在了正确的一边，你就站在了错误的一边。
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
在争吵之后，沉默可能意味着接受或通过其他方式继续抵抗。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
你的论点越有力，你从中得到的满足感就越大。
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
我认为，树叶，我们践踏过的最卑鄙的昆虫，其本身的论点比任何可以引证的论点都更具结论性，即某些巨大的智慧使无限充满活力。
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen.
在科学领域，科学家们经常会说，‘你知道这是一个很好的论点;我的立场是错误的’，然后他们就会改变主意，你就再也听不到他们的旧观点了。他们真的做到了。它不会发生。
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
对于我所珍视的观点，没有什么比糟糕的论据更让我喜欢的了。
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
讽刺和挖苦都不是辩论。