Happy Thursday ADD Irregulars, Refugees & Phamily! Good Morning Digital Neighbors, Dawn Patrol & Early Birds, Later Dayers & Day Walkers, Conversants, Lurkers & Visitors to the Local communities I appreciate - all of you Rubin Reporters, Phetasy Pham and Padre Neighbors that make my visits to Locals enjoyable. Taking a small break from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows to visits some quote on argument.

Many contemporaries probably think that to argue is to be an ass. Certainly the current manifestation of argumentation as decayed into imputing the worst of intentions and attributes to those with whom you agree. Our current political climate has contaminated so much. One should not ignore politics unless you want to wake up one day with your live changed and your freedom gone. Conversely, making politics your active substitute for other passions or religious experiences is disastrous. Informed, aware, engaged but not singularly obsessed.

My mother's family loved arguing, often about the most ridiculous stuff. My father's family was the opposite. How can a people so similar in culture, the English and the Irish, be so different in attitude toward arguing? Is it a difference between a Germanic or Celtic temperament? Perhaps it was just within my extended families, but all of us kids knew the difference between visiting the Lavin side of family and the Miller side of the family.

90% the arguments ended in laughter and the agree to disagree about the subject since many were just expressing uninformed opinions. The 10% that turned ugly was always the most immediate and personal, family issues and often the arguing over who said what. Momma Peg would tell my father "We get it off our chest when we argue." My father's retort: "You bring it back up for the next 20 years." Both were right. 😁 Anyways on to the quotes my friends! 5 for Thursday! I guess I should spread it out over a few days, but I am sure I will have something else to ramble about tomorrow. 🌞

He who knows only his side of the case, knows little of that. - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear. -Chinese Proverb

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent took the right side.- Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. -Will Rogers, Daily Telegrams, 16 March 1932

You cannot antagonize and influence people at the same time. - James Samuel Knox, The Science and Art of Selling