One of the arguments for treating symptoms is to make people feel better. One of the arguments against is you really should focus your energy on uncovering the cause or reassuring the family the cause is not serious.

Treating a daytime cough, the (medicine) is probably no use. But trying some preparations to treat a nighttime cough is reasonable if it lets the family and kid sleep better. Chances are, it's not going to help.

He's one of my favorite people in the game. We'd get into plenty of arguments about pitching, and he's never had an opinion he didn't express. There's nothing soft about him at all. But if I were hiring, I would have him today.

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

I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they... find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there... What you see is what you get.

Dependency arguments often come from elites -- either aid agencies or governments -- and say something about attitudes to poor people,