In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.
I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
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