Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.
Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games.
In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded selectively, and supported by fake experts who often don't seem fake at all.
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.
My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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