“I don't like your tone," was Violet's standard answer when one of her children was winning an argument.”
Source: The Duke and I
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“Your arguments are overwhelming. You’re obviously right — and the answer is No.”
Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett (1923–2014) British politician
To education secretary Reg Prentice <br class="br"> Daily Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11205400/Lord-Barnett-obituary.html obituary, 3 Nov 2014
Sappho (-630–-570 BC) ancient Greek lyric poet
Fragment 58 Voigt
The Willis Barnstone translations, Old Age
Ward Cunningham (1949) American computer programmer who developed the first wiki
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Collective Ownership of Code and Text
Context: It was a turning point in my programming career when I realized that I didn't have to win every argument. I'd be talking about code with someone, and I'd say, "I think the best way to do it is A." And they'd say, "I think the best way to do it is B. I'd say, "Well no, it's really A." And they'd say, "Well, we want to do B." It was a turning point for me when I could say, "Fine. Do B. It's not going to hurt us that much if I'm wrong. It's not going to hurt us that much if I'm right and you do B, because, we can correct mistakes. So lets find out if it's a mistake."
“I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.”
Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer
Sitting Bull (1831–1890) Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man
GoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5712889.Sitting_Bull <br class="br">Attributed quotes
“Can you imagine feds saying we don't like your answers.”
Jacques Parizeau (1930–2015) Canadian politician
May 15, 2005 - interview on CTV news with reporter/anchorwoman Lisa LaFlamme, Parizeau said the Clarity Act "meant nothing" and would be ignored. "Can you imagine feds saying we don't like your answers," Parizeau told the interviewer, calling such suggestions a "political stunt."
Douglas Murray (1979) British political commentator and far-right activist
Source: The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (2019)